--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/project_files/frontlib/util.c	Fri Jun 08 19:52:24 2012 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+#include "util.h"
+
+#include <stddef.h>
+#include <stdarg.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+char *flib_asprintf(const char *fmt, ...) {
+	va_list argp;
+	va_start(argp, fmt);
+	char *result = flib_vasprintf(fmt, argp);
+	va_end(argp);
+	return result;
+}
+
+char *flib_vasprintf(const char *fmt, va_list args) {
+	char *result = NULL;
+	int requiredSize = vsnprintf(NULL, 0, fmt, args)+1;				// Figure out how much memory we need,
+	if(requiredSize>=0) {
+		char *tmpbuf = malloc(requiredSize);						// allocate it
+		if(tmpbuf) {
+			if(vsnprintf(tmpbuf, requiredSize, fmt, args)>=0) {		// and then do the actual formatting.
+				result = tmpbuf;
+				tmpbuf = NULL;
+			}
+		}
+		free(tmpbuf);
+	}
+	return result;
+}
+
+char *flib_strdupnull(const char *str) {
+	if(!str) {
+		return NULL;
+	}
+	return flib_asprintf("%s", str);
+}
+
+void *flib_bufdupnull(const void *buf, size_t size) {
+	if(!buf || size==0) {
+		return NULL;
+	}
+	void *result = malloc(size);
+	if(result) {
+		memcpy(result, buf, size);
+	}
+	return result;
+}