Re: [Bug-gnulib] xalloc: add xstrndup

[Paul Eggert]

Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:

> I did not include MODULES.html.sh documentation since xmalloc,
> xstrdup, etc was not mentioned.

It shouldn't be necessary, since the info is gotten from modules/xalloc.

> +  /* FIXME we may allocate more than needed amount. however strlen()
> +     may read out of bounds in case string is not zero terminated.
> +     looping through string (limited by n) waste cpu, this waste
> +     memory. */

Why not do something like this instead?

        char *s = strndup (string, n);
        if (! s)
          xalloc_die ();
        return s;