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+/* sdump.c -- library to allocate a printable version of a string */
+/** \file sdump.c
+ * \author Matthias Andree
+ * \date 2009
+ */
+
+#include <ctype.h>  /* for isprint() */
+#include <stdio.h>  /* for sprintf() */
+#include <stdlib.h> /* for size_t */
+#include "xmalloc.h" /* for xmalloc() */
+
+#include "sdump.h"   /* for prototype */
+
+/** sdump converts a byte string \a in of size \a len into a printable
+ * string and returns a pointer to the memory region.
+ * \returns a pointer to a xmalloc()ed string that the caller must
+ * free() after use. This function causes program abort on failure. */
+char *sdump(const char *in, size_t len)
+{
+    size_t outlen = 0, i;
+    char *out, *oi;
+
+    for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
+	outlen += isprint((unsigned char)in[i]) ? 1 : 4;
+    }
+
+    oi = out = (char *)xmalloc(outlen + 1);
+    for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
+	if (isprint((unsigned char)in[i])) {
+	    *(oi++) = in[i];
+	} else {
+	    oi += sprintf(oi, "\\x%02X", in[i]);
+	}
+    }
+    *oi = '\0';
+    return out;
+}