hexdump performance test, part 1

spoiler alert: it's slow as molasses

part 2 will be presented at a later date

(yes, please don't fill 8GB of memory with
random data and hexdump it)

Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>

util/libreboot-utils/lib/num.c

@@ -50,6 +50,22 @@ hextonum(char ch_s)
 }
 
 /* basically hexdump -C */
+/*
+	TODO: optimise this
+	write a full util for hexdump
+	how to optimise:
+	don't call print tens of thousands of times!
+	convert the numbers manually, and cache everything
+	in a BUFSIZ sized buffer, with everything properly
+	aligned. i worked out that i could fit 79 rows
+	in a 8KB buffer (1264 bytes of numbers represented
+	as strings in hex)
+	this depends on the OS, and would be calculated at
+	runtime.
+	then:
+	don't use printf. just write it to stdout (basically
+	a simple cat implementation)
+*/
 void
 spew_hex(const void *data, size_t len)
 {
@@ -64,7 +80,7 @@ spew_hex(const void *data, size_t len)
 
 	for (i = 0; i < len; i += 16) {
 
-		printf("%08zx  ", i);
+		printf("%0*zx  ", sizeof(size_t) * 2, i);
 
 		for (j = 0; j < 16; j++) {
 

util/libreboot-utils/lib/string.c

@@ -179,7 +179,6 @@ scatn(ssize_t sc, const char **sv,
     size_t max, char **rval)
 {
 	int saved_errno = errno;
-
 	char *final = NULL;
 	char *rcur = NULL;
 	char *rtmp = NULL;
@@ -192,7 +191,9 @@ scatn(ssize_t sc, const char **sv,
 
 	for (i = 0; i < sc; i++) {
 
-		if (i == 0) {
+		if (if_err(sv[i] == NULL, EFAULT))
+			goto err;
+		else if (i == 0) {
 			if (sdup(sv[0], max, &final) < 0)
 				goto err;
 			continue;