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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>1993-08-27 17:30:26 +0000
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>1993-08-27 17:30:26 +0000
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+/* Buffer primitives for comparison operations.
+ Copyright (C) 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+ any later version.
+
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */
+
+#include "system.h"
+#include "cmpbuf.h"
+
+/* Least common multiple of two buffer sizes A and B. */
+
+size_t
+buffer_lcm (a, b)
+ size_t a, b;
+{
+ size_t m, n, r;
+
+ /* Yield reasonable values if buffer sizes are zero. */
+ if (!a)
+ return b ? b : 8 * 1024;
+ if (!b)
+ return a;
+
+ /* n = gcd (a, b) */
+ for (m = a, n = b; (r = m % n) != 0; m = n, n = r)
+ continue;
+
+ return a/n * b;
+}