stdlib/getenv.c

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  17
  18 #include <endian.h>
  19 #include <errno.h>
  20 #include <stdint.h>
  21 #include <stdlib.h>
  22 #include <string.h>
  23 #include <unistd.h>
  24
  25
  26 /* Return the value of the environment variable NAME.  This implementation
  27    is tuned a bit in that it assumes no environment variable has an empty
  28    name which of course should always be true.  We have a special case for
  29    one character names so that for the general case we can assume at least
  30    two characters which we can access.  By doing this we can avoid using the
  31    `strncmp' most of the time.  */
  32 char *
  33 getenv (name)
  34      const char *name;
  35 {
  36   size_t len = strlen (name);
  37   char **ep;
  38   uint16_t name_start;
  39
  40   if (__environ == NULL || name[0] == '\0')
  41     return NULL;
  42
  43   if (name[1] == '\0')
  44     {
  45       /* The name of the variable consists of only one character.  Therefore
  46          the first two characters of the environment entry are this character
  47          and a '=' character.  */
  48 #if __BYTE_ORDER == __LITTLE_ENDIAN || !_STRING_ARCH_unaligned
  49       name_start = ('=' << 8) | *(const unsigned char *) name;
  50 #else
  51       name_start = '=' | ((*(const unsigned char *) name) << 8);
  52 #endif
  53       for (ep = __environ; *ep != NULL; ++ep)
  54         {
  55 #if _STRING_ARCH_unaligned
  56           uint16_t ep_start = *(uint16_t *) *ep;
  57 #else
  58           uint16_t ep_start = (((unsigned char *) *ep)[0]
  59                                | (((unsigned char *) *ep)[1] << 8));
  60 #endif
  61           if (name_start == ep_start)
  62             return &(*ep)[2];
  63         }
  64     }
  65   else
  66     {
  67 #if _STRING_ARCH_unaligned
  68       name_start = *(const uint16_t *) name;
  69 #else
  70       name_start = (((const unsigned char *) name)[0]
  71                     | (((const unsigned char *) name)[1] << 8));
  72 #endif
  73       len -= 2;
  74       name += 2;
  75
  76       for (ep = __environ; *ep != NULL; ++ep)
  77         {
  78 #if _STRING_ARCH_unaligned
  79           uint16_t ep_start = *(uint16_t *) *ep;
  80 #else
  81           uint16_t ep_start = (((unsigned char *) *ep)[0]
  82                                | (((unsigned char *) *ep)[1] << 8));
  83 #endif
  84
  85           if (name_start == ep_start && !strncmp (*ep + 2, name, len)
  86               && (*ep)[len + 2] == '=')
  87             return &(*ep)[len + 3];
  88         }
  89     }
  90
  91   return NULL;
  92 }
  93 libc_hidden_def (getenv)