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libbb: add a function to make a copy of a region of memory

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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>
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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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@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ static const struct rule *next_rule(void)
if (G.parser) {
parse_next_rule();
if (G.rule_vec) { /* mdev -s */
rule = memcpy(xmalloc(sizeof(G.cur_rule)), &G.cur_rule, sizeof(G.cur_rule));
rule = xmemdup(&G.cur_rule, sizeof(G.cur_rule));
G.rule_vec = xrealloc_vector(G.rule_vec, 4, G.rule_idx);
G.rule_vec[G.rule_idx++] = rule;
dbg3("> G.rule_vec[G.rule_idx:%d]=%p", G.rule_idx, G.rule_vec[G.rule_idx]);