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+/* Copyright 1998 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
+ *
+ * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
+ * software and its documentation for any purpose and without
+ * fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright
+ * notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright
+ * notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
+ * documentation, and that the name of M.I.T. not be used in
+ * advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the
+ * software without specific, written prior permission.
+ * M.I.T. makes no representations about the suitability of
+ * this software for any purpose.  It is provided "as is"
+ * without express or implied warranty.
+ */
+
+#include <sys/types.h>
+
+#ifdef WIN32
+#include "nameser.h"
+#else
+#include <netinet/in.h>
+#include <arpa/nameser.h>
+#endif
+
+#include <string.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include "ares.h"
+#include "ares_private.h" /* for the memdebug */
+
+/* Simply decodes a length-encoded character string. The first byte of the
+ * input is the length of the string to be returned and the bytes thereafter
+ * are the characters of the string. The returned result will be NULL
+ * terminated.
+ */
+int ares_expand_string(const unsigned char *encoded,
+                       const unsigned char *abuf,
+                       int alen,
+                       unsigned char **s,
+                       long *enclen)
+{
+  unsigned char *q;
+  long len;
+  if (encoded == abuf+alen)
+    return ARES_EBADSTR;
+
+  len = *encoded;
+  if (encoded+len+1 > abuf+alen)
+    return ARES_EBADSTR;
+
+  encoded++;
+
+  *s = malloc(len+1);
+  if (*s == NULL)
+    return ARES_ENOMEM;
+  q = *s; 
+  strncpy((char *)q, (char *)encoded, len);
+  q[len] = '\0';
+
+  *s = q;
+
+  *enclen = len+1; 
+
+  return ARES_SUCCESS;
+}
+