From 18ddadc2e96279c69b1960af57da7af9332fbb21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 16:49:10 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] ofp-util: New functions ofputil_actions_equal(),
 ofputil_actions_clone().

I found that introducing these helper functions provided a very modest
increase in readability.
---
 lib/ofp-util.c | 13 +++++++++++++
 lib/ofp-util.h |  4 ++++
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/ofp-util.c b/lib/ofp-util.c
index aa8df777..37eb073e 100644
--- a/lib/ofp-util.c
+++ b/lib/ofp-util.c
@@ -2565,3 +2565,16 @@ error:
     *n_actionsp = 0;
     return ofp_mkerr(OFPET_BAD_REQUEST, OFPBRC_BAD_LEN);
 }
+
+bool
+ofputil_actions_equal(const union ofp_action *a, size_t n_a,
+                      const union ofp_action *b, size_t n_b)
+{
+    return n_a == n_b && (!n_a || !memcmp(a, b, n_a * sizeof *a));
+}
+
+union ofp_action *
+ofputil_actions_clone(const union ofp_action *actions, size_t n)
+{
+    return n ? xmemdup(actions, n * sizeof *actions) : NULL;
+}
diff --git a/lib/ofp-util.h b/lib/ofp-util.h
index 5ff274eb..0190caaf 100644
--- a/lib/ofp-util.h
+++ b/lib/ofp-util.h
@@ -291,6 +291,10 @@ bool action_outputs_to_port(const union ofp_action *, ovs_be16 port);
 
 int ofputil_pull_actions(struct ofpbuf *, unsigned int actions_len,
                          union ofp_action **, size_t *);
+
+bool ofputil_actions_equal(const union ofp_action *a, size_t n_a,
+                           const union ofp_action *b, size_t n_b);
+union ofp_action *ofputil_actions_clone(const union ofp_action *, size_t n);
 
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  *
-- 
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