+
+#endif /* !MACRO_PREDEF && !COMPILE_UTILITY */
+/******************************************************************************/
+/* String functions */
+
+/*************************************************
+* Copy and save string *
+*************************************************/
+
+/* This function assumes that memcpy() is faster than strcpy().
+*/
+
+#if !defined(MACRO_PREDEF)
+static inline uschar *
+string_copy(const uschar *s)
+{
+int len = Ustrlen(s) + 1;
+uschar *ss = store_get(len);
+memcpy(ss, s, len);
+return ss;
+}
+
+
+/*************************************************
+* Copy, lowercase and save string *
+*************************************************/
+
+/*
+Argument: string to copy
+Returns: copy of string in new store, with letters lowercased
+*/
+
+static inline uschar *
+string_copylc(const uschar *s)
+{
+uschar *ss = store_get(Ustrlen(s) + 1);
+uschar *p = ss;
+while (*s != 0) *p++ = tolower(*s++);
+*p = 0;
+return ss;
+}
+
+
+
+/*************************************************
+* Copy and save string, given length *
+*************************************************/
+
+/* It is assumed the data contains no zeros. A zero is added
+onto the end.
+
+Arguments:
+ s string to copy
+ n number of characters
+
+Returns: copy of string in new store
+
+This is an API for local_scan hence not static.
+*/
+
+static inline uschar *
+string_copyn(const uschar *s, int n)
+{
+uschar *ss = store_get(n + 1);
+Ustrncpy(ss, s, n);
+ss[n] = 0;
+return ss;
+}
+
+/*************************************************
+* Copy, lowercase, and save string, given length *
+*************************************************/
+
+/* It is assumed the data contains no zeros. A zero is added
+onto the end.
+
+Arguments:
+ s string to copy
+ n number of characters
+
+Returns: copy of string in new store, with letters lowercased
+*/
+
+static inline uschar *
+string_copynlc(uschar *s, int n)
+{
+uschar *ss = store_get(n + 1);
+uschar *p = ss;
+while (n-- > 0) *p++ = tolower(*s++);
+*p = 0;
+return ss;
+}
+
+
+/******************************************************************************/
+/* Growable-string functions */
+
+/* Create a growable-string with some preassigned space, in untainted memory */
+
+static inline gstring *
+string_get(unsigned size)
+{
+gstring * g = store_get(sizeof(gstring) + size);
+g->size = size;
+g->ptr = 0;
+g->s = US(g + 1);
+return g;
+}
+
+/* NUL-terminate the C string in the growable-string, and return it. */
+
+static inline uschar *
+string_from_gstring(gstring * g)
+{
+if (!g) return NULL;
+g->s[g->ptr] = '\0';
+return g->s;
+}
+
+static inline void
+gstring_release_unused(gstring * g)
+{
+if (g) store_reset(g->s + (g->size = g->ptr + 1));
+}
+
+/******************************************************************************/