/* Find the length of STRING, but scan at most MAXLEN characters.
Copyright (C) 2005-2007, 2009-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- Written by Simon Josefsson.
This file is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
#include <string.h>
-/* Find the length of STRING, but scan at most MAXLEN characters.
- If no '\0' terminator is found in that many characters, return MAXLEN. */
+/* Find the length of S, but scan at most MAXLEN bytes.
+ S must be a string if it starts with fewer than MAXLEN initialized bytes.
+ If no '\0' terminator is found in that many bytes, return MAXLEN. */
size_t
-strnlen (const char *string, size_t maxlen)
+strnlen (const char *s, size_t maxlen)
{
- const char *end = memchr (string, '\0', maxlen);
- return end ? (size_t) (end - string) : maxlen;
+ /* Do not use memchr, because on some platforms memchr has
+ undefined behavior if MAXLEN exceeds the number of bytes in S. */
+ size_t i;
+ for (i = 0; i < maxlen && s[i]; i++)
+ continue;
+ return i;
}