Add MOVE_ARRAY to complement COPY_ARRAY, which was added in 60566cbb.
It provides the same convenience, safety and support for NULL pointers
as representations of empty arrays, just as a wrapper for memmove(3)
instead of memcpy(3).
Inspired-by: Martin Liska <mli...@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l....@web.de>
---
git-compat-util.h | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
index 8a4a3f85e7..3266a71fb4 100644
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h
@@ -812,6 +812,14 @@ static inline void copy_array(void *dst, const void *src,
size_t n, size_t size)
memcpy(dst, src, st_mult(size, n));
}
+#define MOVE_ARRAY(dst, src, n) move_array((dst), (src), (n), sizeof(*(dst)) +
\
+ BUILD_ASSERT_OR_ZERO(sizeof(*(dst)) == sizeof(*(src))))
+static inline void move_array(void *dst, const void *src, size_t n, size_t
size)
+{
+ if (n)
+ memmove(dst, src, st_mult(size, n));
+}
+
/*
* These functions help you allocate structs with flex arrays, and copy
* the data directly into the array. For example, if you had:
--
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