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1 | /* Allocate memory region filled with spaces. |
2 | Copyright (C) 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. | |
3 | ||
4 | This file is part of the libiberty library. | |
5 | Libiberty is free software; you can redistribute it and/or | |
6 | modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public | |
7 | License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either | |
8 | version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. | |
9 | ||
10 | Libiberty is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
11 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
12 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU | |
13 | Library General Public License for more details. | |
14 | ||
15 | You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public | |
16 | License along with libiberty; see the file COPYING.LIB. If | |
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17 | not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street - Fifth Floor, |
18 | Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */ | |
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19 | |
20 | /* | |
21 | ||
ba19b94f | 22 | @deftypefn Extension char* spaces (int @var{count}) |
252b5132 | 23 | |
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24 | Returns a pointer to a memory region filled with the specified |
25 | number of spaces and null terminated. The returned pointer is | |
26 | valid until at least the next call. | |
252b5132 | 27 | |
ba19b94f | 28 | @end deftypefn |
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29 | |
30 | */ | |
31 | ||
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32 | #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H |
33 | #include "config.h" | |
34 | #endif | |
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35 | #include "ansidecl.h" |
36 | #include "libiberty.h" | |
37 | ||
38 | #if VMS | |
39 | #include <stdlib.h> | |
40 | #include <unixlib.h> | |
41 | #else | |
42 | /* For systems with larger pointers than ints, these must be declared. */ | |
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43 | extern PTR malloc (size_t); |
44 | extern void free (PTR); | |
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45 | #endif |
46 | ||
47 | const char * | |
1e45deed | 48 | spaces (int count) |
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49 | { |
50 | register char *t; | |
51 | static char *buf; | |
52 | static int maxsize; | |
53 | ||
54 | if (count > maxsize) | |
55 | { | |
4ff224cb | 56 | free (buf); |
abf6a75b | 57 | buf = (char *) malloc (count + 1); |
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58 | if (buf == (char *) 0) |
59 | return 0; | |
60 | for (t = buf + count ; t != buf ; ) | |
61 | { | |
62 | *--t = ' '; | |
63 | } | |
64 | maxsize = count; | |
65 | buf[count] = '\0'; | |
66 | } | |
67 | return (const char *) (buf + maxsize - count); | |
68 | } | |
69 |