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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/lib/linebuffer.c b/lib/linebuffer.c
index 5266dc118..8374a8a88 100644
--- a/lib/linebuffer.c
+++ b/lib/linebuffer.c
@@ -25,9 +25,8 @@
#include <sys/types.h>
#include "linebuffer.h"
#include "unlocked-io.h"
+#include "xalloc.h"
-char *xmalloc ();
-char *xrealloc ();
void free ();
/* Initialize linebuffer LINEBUFFER for use. */
@@ -37,14 +36,16 @@ initbuffer (struct linebuffer *linebuffer)
{
linebuffer->length = 0;
linebuffer->size = 200;
- linebuffer->buffer = (char *) xmalloc (linebuffer->size);
+ linebuffer->buffer = xmalloc (linebuffer->size);
}
/* Read an arbitrarily long line of text from STREAM into LINEBUFFER.
Keep the newline; append a newline if it's the last line of a file
that ends in a non-newline character. Do not null terminate.
- Return LINEBUFFER, except at end of file return 0. */
-
+ Therefore the stream can contain NUL bytes, and the length
+ (including the newline) is returned in linebuffer->length.
+ Return NULL upon error, or when STREAM is empty.
+ Otherwise, return LINEBUFFER. */
struct linebuffer *
readline (struct linebuffer *linebuffer, FILE *stream)
{
@@ -54,7 +55,7 @@ readline (struct linebuffer *linebuffer, FILE *stream)
char *end = buffer + linebuffer->size; /* Sentinel. */
if (feof (stream) || ferror (stream))
- return 0;
+ return NULL;
do
{
@@ -62,7 +63,7 @@ readline (struct linebuffer *linebuffer, FILE *stream)
if (c == EOF)
{
if (p == buffer)
- return 0;
+ return NULL;
if (p[-1] == '\n')
break;
c = '\n';
@@ -70,7 +71,7 @@ readline (struct linebuffer *linebuffer, FILE *stream)
if (p == end)
{
linebuffer->size *= 2;
- buffer = (char *) xrealloc (buffer, linebuffer->size);
+ buffer = xrealloc (buffer, linebuffer->size);
p = p - linebuffer->buffer + buffer;
linebuffer->buffer = buffer;
end = buffer + linebuffer->size;