1/* Convenience function for string allocation.
2   Copyright (C) 2006 Red Hat, Inc.
3   This file is part of Red Hat elfutils.
4
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25
26#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
27# include <config.h>
28#endif
29
30#include <string.h>
31#include "system.h"
32
33
34/* Return a newly allocated copy of STRING.  */
35char *
36xstrndup (string, n)
37     const char *string;
38     size_t n;
39{
40  char *res;
41  size_t len = strnlen (string, n);
42  *((char *) mempcpy ((res = xmalloc (len + 1)), string, len)) = '\0';
43  return res;
44}
45