Re: [Bug-gnulib] xalloc: add xstrndup

[Simon Josefsson]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

>> +  /* 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;

Better, thanks.  (I hadn't noticed the xalloc_die() function.)