libbb: add a function to make a copy of a region of memory
Introduce a library routine to package the idiom:
p = xmalloc(b, n);
memcpy(p, b, n);
and use it where possible. The example in traceroute used xzalloc
but it didn't need to.
function old new delta
xmemdup - 32 +32
last_main 834 826 -8
make_device 2321 2311 -10
common_traceroute_main 3698 3685 -13
readtoken1 3182 3168 -14
procps_scan 1222 1206 -16
forkchild 655 638 -17
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(add/remove: 1/0 grow/shrink: 0/6 up/down: 32/-78) Total: -46 bytes
Signed-off-by: Ron Yorston <rmy@frippery.org>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
diff --git a/include/libbb.h b/include/libbb.h
index f0ac1f5..54d01b7 100644
--- a/include/libbb.h
+++ b/include/libbb.h
@@ -673,6 +673,7 @@
char *xstrdup(const char *s) FAST_FUNC RETURNS_MALLOC;
char *xstrndup(const char *s, int n) FAST_FUNC RETURNS_MALLOC;
+void *xmemdup(const void *s, int n) FAST_FUNC RETURNS_MALLOC;
void overlapping_strcpy(char *dst, const char *src) FAST_FUNC;
char *safe_strncpy(char *dst, const char *src, size_t size) FAST_FUNC;
char *strncpy_IFNAMSIZ(char *dst, const char *src) FAST_FUNC;