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authorAlan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>2016-05-31 20:34:47 +0930
committerAlan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>2016-05-31 20:34:47 +0930
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Don't needlessly clear xmemdup allocated memory.
* xmemdup.c (xmemdup): Use xmalloc rather than xcalloc.
Diffstat (limited to 'libiberty')
-rw-r--r--libiberty/ChangeLog4
-rw-r--r--libiberty/xmemdup.c6
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/libiberty/ChangeLog b/libiberty/ChangeLog
index 358a6b0..c55af15 100644
--- a/libiberty/ChangeLog
+++ b/libiberty/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2016-05-31 Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
+
+ * xmemdup.c (xmemdup): Use xmalloc rather than xcalloc.
+
2016-01-27 Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw@gdcproject.org>
* d-demangle.c (dlang_call_convention): Handle extern Objective-C
diff --git a/libiberty/xmemdup.c b/libiberty/xmemdup.c
index aa56f0b..4602afd 100644
--- a/libiberty/xmemdup.c
+++ b/libiberty/xmemdup.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* xmemdup.c -- Duplicate a memory buffer, using xcalloc.
+/* xmemdup.c -- Duplicate a memory buffer, using xmalloc.
This trivial function is in the public domain.
Jeff Garzik, September 1999. */
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ allocated, the remaining memory is zeroed.
PTR
xmemdup (const PTR input, size_t copy_size, size_t alloc_size)
{
- PTR output = xcalloc (1, alloc_size);
+ PTR output = xmalloc (alloc_size);
+ if (alloc_size > copy_size)
+ memset ((char *) output + copy_size, 0, alloc_size - copy_size);
return (PTR) memcpy (output, input, copy_size);
}