Even more than with the previous commit, this is not a trivial function
and there's no reason to believe this will actually be inlined nor that
it would be beneficial.
The function isn't necessarily fast (it's O(n)), and there's no reason
to have it defined as inline function, since it's neither fast, nor
entirely trivial.
This is preparation for #28891, which adds a bunch more helpers around
"struct iovec", at which point this really deserves its own .c/.h file.
The idea is that we sooner or later can consider "struct iovec" as an
entirely generic mechanism to reference some binary blob, and is the
go-to type for this purpose whenever we need one.
Mike Yuan
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Lennart Poettering