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      1 /* Implement the strndup function.
      2    Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
      3    Written by Kaveh R. Ghazi <ghazi (at) caip.rutgers.edu>.
      4 
      5 This file is part of the libiberty library.
      6 Libiberty is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
      7 modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
      8 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
      9 version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
     10 
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     13 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
     14 Library General Public License for more details.
     15 
     16 You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
     17 License along with libiberty; see the file COPYING.LIB.  If
     18 not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street - Fifth Floor,
     19 Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.  */
     20 
     21 /*
     22 
     23 @deftypefn Extension char* strndup (const char *@var{s}, size_t @var{n})
     24 
     25 Returns a pointer to a copy of @var{s} with at most @var{n} characters
     26 in memory obtained from @code{malloc}, or @code{NULL} if insufficient
     27 memory was available.  The result is always NUL terminated.
     28 
     29 @end deftypefn
     30 
     31 */
     32 
     33 #include "ansidecl.h"
     34 #include <stddef.h>
     35 
     36 extern size_t	strlen (const char*);
     37 extern PTR	malloc (size_t);
     38 extern PTR	memcpy (PTR, const PTR, size_t);
     39 
     40 char *
     41 strndup (const char *s, size_t n)
     42 {
     43   char *result;
     44   size_t len = strlen (s);
     45 
     46   if (n < len)
     47     len = n;
     48 
     49   result = (char *) malloc (len + 1);
     50   if (!result)
     51     return 0;
     52 
     53   result[len] = '\0';
     54   return (char *) memcpy (result, s, len);
     55 }
     56