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      1 /* Implement the xstrndup 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 
     11 Libiberty is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
     12 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
     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 Replacement char* xstrndup (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 without fail, using @code{xmalloc} to obtain memory.  The result is
     27 always NUL terminated.
     28 
     29 @end deftypefn
     30 
     31 */
     32 
     33 #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
     34 #include "config.h"
     35 #endif
     36 #include <sys/types.h>
     37 #ifdef HAVE_STRING_H
     38 #include <string.h>
     39 #else
     40 # ifdef HAVE_STRINGS_H
     41 #  include <strings.h>
     42 # endif
     43 #endif
     44 #include "ansidecl.h"
     45 #include "libiberty.h"
     46 
     47 char *
     48 xstrndup (const char *s, size_t n)
     49 {
     50   char *result;
     51   size_t len = strlen (s);
     52 
     53   if (n < len)
     54     len = n;
     55 
     56   result = XNEWVEC (char, len + 1);
     57 
     58   result[len] = '\0';
     59   return (char *) memcpy (result, s, len);
     60 }
     61