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_resize_clear.c

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+/* Increase the size of a dynamic array and clear the new part.
+   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_resize_clear (struct dynarray_header *list, size_t size,
+                              void *scratch, size_t element_size)
+{
+  size_t old_size = list->used;
+  if (!__libc_dynarray_resize (list, size, scratch, element_size))
+    return false;
+  /* __libc_dynarray_resize already checked for overflow.  */
+  memset (list->array + (old_size * element_size), 0,
+          (size - old_size) * element_size);
+  return true;
+}
+libc_hidden_def (__libc_dynarray_resize_clear)