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New module: xprintf * modules/xprintf, lib/xprintf.c, lib/xprintf.h: New files.
author Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
date Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:09:37 +0200
parents bbbbbf4cd1c5
children b5e42ef33b49
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/* Duplicate a bounded initial segment of a string, with out-of-memory
   checking.
   Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
   (at your option) any later version.

   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
   GNU General Public License for more details.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */

#include <stddef.h>

/* Return a newly allocated copy of at most N bytes of STRING.
   In other words, return a copy of the initial segment of length N of
   STRING.  */
extern char *xstrndup (const char *string, size_t n);