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
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(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>
This commit is contained in:
Ron Yorston 2015-07-19 23:05:20 +02:00 committed by Denys Vlasenko
parent 78cfa00154
commit d840c5d139
8 changed files with 13 additions and 17 deletions

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@ -387,15 +387,6 @@ struct globals {
#define outudp ((struct udphdr *)(outip + 1))
/* libbb candidate? tftp uses this idiom too */
static len_and_sockaddr* dup_sockaddr(const len_and_sockaddr *lsa)
{
len_and_sockaddr *new_lsa = xzalloc(LSA_LEN_SIZE + lsa->len);
memcpy(new_lsa, lsa, LSA_LEN_SIZE + lsa->len);
return new_lsa;
}
static int
wait_for_reply(len_and_sockaddr *from_lsa, struct sockaddr *to, unsigned *timestamp_us, int *left_ms)
{
@ -1074,7 +1065,7 @@ common_traceroute_main(int op, char **argv)
printf(" from %s", source);
printf(", %d hops max, %d byte packets\n", max_ttl, packlen);
from_lsa = dup_sockaddr(dest_lsa);
from_lsa = xmemdup(dest_lsa, LSA_LEN_SIZE + dest_lsa->len);
lastaddr = xzalloc(dest_lsa->len);
to = xzalloc(dest_lsa->len);
seq = 0;