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From: Ariadne Conill <ariadne@dereferenced.org>
To: musl <musl@lists.openwall.com>
Subject: [musl] perhaps we should add re[c]allocarray?
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 04:18:35 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3289935.7VNl89jVkd@localhost> (raw)

Hello,

reallocarray and recallocarray are BSD extensions that solve similar issues as 
strlcpy/strlcat, but with array reallocations instead of strings.

reallocarray itself is already part of glibc since 2.28.

Unfortunately, while working on new ifupdown implementation for Alpine, I 
wanted to use recallocarray because it is very helpful in terms of pushing new 
strings to a string array (you will always maintain a NULL-terminated array, 
and you don't have to worry about it) -- but I discovered musl still does not 
have it.

Anyway, I think it would be useful to include both functions in musl 1.2.1.  
If everyone agrees, I'll make a patch.

Ariadne



             reply	other threads:[~2020-07-21 10:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-21 10:18 Ariadne Conill [this message]
2020-07-21 16:56 ` Markus Wichmann
2020-07-21 17:27   ` Hadrien Lacour
2020-07-21 23:19   ` Ariadne Conill
2020-07-21 18:39 ` Rich Felker
2020-07-21 18:58   ` Florian Weimer
2020-07-21 20:40     ` Rich Felker
2020-07-21 23:21       ` Ariadne Conill
2020-07-22  0:21         ` Rich Felker
2020-07-22  0:24           ` Ariadne Conill
2020-07-21 19:40   ` Leah Neukirchen

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