From 496d2cae5fd6be08cb88dc58f05715f269094625 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: lisa neigut <niftynei@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 19:03:13 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] varint: Add helper function for getting varlen size

Needed to calculate somethings for building dual funding txs
---
 bitcoin/varint.c | 11 +++++++++++
 bitcoin/varint.h |  3 +++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/bitcoin/varint.c b/bitcoin/varint.c
index 1e97cddd3..290e28586 100644
--- a/bitcoin/varint.c
+++ b/bitcoin/varint.c
@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
 #include "varint.h"
 
+size_t varint_size(varint_t v)
+{
+	if (v < 0xfd)
+		return 1;
+	if (v <= 0xffff)
+		return 3;
+	if (v <= 0xffffffff)
+		return 5;
+	return 9;
+}
+
 size_t varint_put(u8 buf[VARINT_MAX_LEN], varint_t v)
 {
 	u8 *p = buf;
diff --git a/bitcoin/varint.h b/bitcoin/varint.h
index b0b21c106..eddcb450a 100644
--- a/bitcoin/varint.h
+++ b/bitcoin/varint.h
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
 
 #define VARINT_MAX_LEN 9
 
+/* Calculate bytes used (up to 9) */
+size_t varint_size(varint_t v);
+
 /* Returns bytes used (up to 9) */
 size_t varint_put(u8 buf[VARINT_MAX_LEN], varint_t v);