Function duplicateStringValue

Sources/Dependencies/jsoncpp/value.cpp:111–124

Duplicates the specified string value. * @param value Pointer to the string to duplicate. Must be zero-terminated if * length is "unknown". * @param length Length of the value. if equals to unknown, then it will be * computed using strlen(value). * @return Pointer on the duplicate instance of string. */

	 * @return Pointer on the duplicate instance of string.
	 */
	static inline char* duplicateStringValue(const char* value, size_t length) {
		// Avoid an integer overflow in the call to malloc below by limiting length
		// to a sane value.
		if (length >= static_cast<size_t>(Value::maxInt))
			length = Value::maxInt - 1;

		auto newString = static_cast<char*>(malloc(length + 1));
		if (newString == nullptr) {
			throwRuntimeError("in Json::Value::duplicateStringValue(): Failed to allocate string value buffer");
		}
		memcpy(newString, value, length);
		newString[length] = 0;
		return newString;
	}

	/* Record the length as a prefix.
	 */