Add internal facility for dynamic array handling

This is intended as a type-safe alternative to obstacks and
hand-written realloc constructs.  The implementation avoids
writing function pointers to the heap.

malloc/dynarray_finalize.c

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+/* Copy the dynamically-allocated area to an explicitly-sized heap allocation.
+   Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   This file is part of the GNU C Library.
+
+   The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+   modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+   License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+   version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+   The GNU C Library 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
+   Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+   License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
+   <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
+
+#include <dynarray.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+
+bool
+__libc_dynarray_finalize (struct dynarray_header *list,
+                          void *scratch, size_t element_size,
+                          struct dynarray_finalize_result *result)
+{
+  if (__dynarray_error (list))
+    /* The caller will reported the deferred error.  */
+    return false;
+
+  size_t used = list->used;
+
+  /* Empty list.  */
+  if (used == 0)
+    {
+      /* An empty list could still be backed by a heap-allocated
+         array.  Free it if necessary.  */
+      if (list->array != scratch)
+        free (list->array);
+      *result = (struct dynarray_finalize_result) { NULL, 0 };
+      return true;
+    }
+
+  size_t allocation_size = used * element_size;
+  void *heap_array = malloc (allocation_size);
+  if (heap_array != NULL)
+    {
+      /* The new array takes ownership of the strings.  */
+      if (list->array != NULL)
+        memcpy (heap_array, list->array, allocation_size);
+      if (list->array != scratch)
+        free (list->array);
+      *result = (struct dynarray_finalize_result)
+        { .array = heap_array, .length = used };
+      return true;
+    }
+  else
+    /* The caller will perform the freeing operation.  */
+    return false;
+}
+libc_hidden_def (__libc_dynarray_finalize)