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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;
+}