On Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 20:24:12 (+0200) Ilari Liusvaara writes: >Add routine for allocating NUL-terminated memory block without risking >integer overflow in addition of +1 for NUL byte. >... > void *xmemdupz(const void *data, size_t len) > { >- char *p = xmalloc(len + 1); >+ char *p = xmallocz(len); > memcpy(p, data, len); > p[len] = '\0'; > return p; Do you need the statement p[len] = '\0'; any longer in the above? If not, could you just do this: void *xmemdupz(const void *data, size_t len) { return memcpy(xmallocz(len), data, len); } ?? Bill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html