libiberty/spaces.c

   1 /* Allocate memory region filled with spaces.
   2    Copyright (C) 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   3
   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.
   9
  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.
  14
  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., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
  18 Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.  */
  19
  20 /*
  21
  22 @deftypefn Extension char* spaces (int @var{count})
  23
  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.
  27
  28 @end deftypefn
  29
  30 */
  31
  32 #include "ansidecl.h"
  33 #include "libiberty.h"
  34
  35 #if VMS
  36 #include <stdlib.h>
  37 #include <unixlib.h>
  38 #else
  39 /* For systems with larger pointers than ints, these must be declared.  */
  40 extern PTR malloc PARAMS ((size_t));
  41 extern void free PARAMS ((PTR));
  42 #endif
  43
  44 const char *
  45 spaces (count)
  46   int count;
  47 {
  48   register char *t;
  49   static char *buf;
  50   static int maxsize;
  51
  52   if (count > maxsize)
  53     {
  54       if (buf)
  55         {
  56           free (buf);
  57         }
  58       buf = malloc (count + 1);
  59       if (buf == (char *) 0)
  60         return 0;
  61       for (t = buf + count ; t != buf ; )
  62         {
  63           *--t = ' ';
  64         }
  65       maxsize = count;
  66       buf[count] = '\0';
  67     }
  68   return (const char *) (buf + maxsize - count);
  69 }
  70