1 /* Allocate memory region filled with spaces.
2 Copyright (C) 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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.
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.
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
16 License along with libiberty; see the file COPYING.LIB. If
17 not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
18 Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
24 spaces -- return a pointer to a buffer full of spaces
28 char *spaces (int count)
32 Returns a pointer to a memory region filled with the specified
33 number of spaces and null terminated. The returned pointer is
34 valid until at least the next call.
41 #include "libiberty.h"
47 /* For systems with larger pointers than ints, these must be declared. */
48 extern PTR malloc PARAMS ((size_t));
49 extern void free PARAMS ((PTR));
66 buf = malloc (count + 1);
67 if (buf == (char *) 0)
69 for (t = buf + count ; t != buf ; )
76 return (const char *) (buf + maxsize - count);