util/ralloc: add ralloc_str_append() helper

This function differs from ralloc_strcat() and ralloc_strncat()
in that it  does not do any strlen() calls which can become
costly on large strings.

Reviewed-by: Thomas Helland <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/util/ralloc.h b/src/util/ralloc.h
index 7d906519661..05ae8f8407c 100644
--- a/src/util/ralloc.h
+++ b/src/util/ralloc.h
@@ -293,6 +293,24 @@ bool ralloc_strcat(char **dest, const char *str);
 bool ralloc_strncat(char **dest, const char *str, size_t n);
 
 /**
+ * Concatenate two strings, allocating the necessary space.
+ *
+ * This appends \p n bytes of \p str to \p *dest, using ralloc_resize
+ * to expand \p *dest to the appropriate size.  \p dest will be updated to the
+ * new pointer unless allocation fails.
+ *
+ * The result will always be null-terminated.
+ *
+ * This function differs from ralloc_strcat() and ralloc_strncat() in that it
+ * does not do any strlen() calls which can become costly on large strings.
+ *
+ * \return True unless allocation failed.
+ */
+bool
+ralloc_str_append(char **dest, const char *str,
+                  size_t existing_length, size_t str_size);
+
+/**
  * Print to a string.
  *
  * This is analogous to \c sprintf, but allocates enough space (using \p ctx