[PATCH v2 5/9] lib/string.c: implement strdup() and strndup() in terms of memdup_nul()
Rasmus Villemoes
ravi at prevas.dk
Tue Apr 21 09:54:35 CEST 2026
With the addition of memdup_nul(), strdup() and strndup() can be
implemented as one-liners.
While not required by POSIX or C, do keep the behaviour of gracefully
accepting a NULL source and simply return NULL.
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <ravi at prevas.dk>
---
lib/string.c | 30 ++----------------------------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
index 3923cce5561..5ccd1011ab5 100644
--- a/lib/string.c
+++ b/lib/string.c
@@ -360,38 +360,12 @@ void *memdup_nul(const void *src, size_t len)
char * strdup(const char *s)
{
- char *new;
-
- if ((s == NULL) ||
- ((new = malloc (strlen(s) + 1)) == NULL) ) {
- return NULL;
- }
-
- strcpy (new, s);
- return new;
+ return s ? memdup_nul(s, strlen(s)) : NULL;
}
char * strndup(const char *s, size_t n)
{
- size_t len;
- char *new;
-
- if (s == NULL)
- return NULL;
-
- len = strlen(s);
-
- if (n < len)
- len = n;
-
- new = malloc(len + 1);
- if (new == NULL)
- return NULL;
-
- strncpy(new, s, len);
- new[len] = '\0';
-
- return new;
+ return s ? memdup_nul(s, strnlen(s, n)) : NULL;
}
#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRSPN
--
2.53.0
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