1 /* Allocate memory region filled with spaces.
2 Copyright (C) 1991-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This file is part of the libiberty library.
5 Libiberty is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
6 modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
7 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
8 version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
10 Libiberty is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
13 Library General Public License for more details.
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
16 License along with libiberty; see the file COPYING.LIB. If
17 not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street - Fifth Floor,
18 Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
22 @deftypefn Extension char* spaces (int @var{count})
24 Returns a pointer to a memory region filled with the specified
25 number of spaces and null terminated. The returned pointer is
26 valid until at least the next call.
36 #include "libiberty.h"
42 /* For systems with larger pointers than ints, these must be declared. */
43 extern void *malloc (size_t);
44 extern void free (void *);
57 buf
= (char *) malloc (count
+ 1);
58 if (buf
== (char *) 0)
60 for (t
= buf
+ count
; t
!= buf
; )
67 return (const char *) (buf
+ maxsize
- count
);