util: add talloc-extra.[ch]

These are intended to be simple wrappers to provide slightly better
debugging information than what talloc currently provides natively.

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diff --git a/util/talloc-extra.h b/util/talloc-extra.h
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+#ifndef _TALLOC_EXTRA_H
+#define _TALLOC_EXTRA_H
+
+#include <talloc.h>
+
+/* Like talloc_strndup, but take an extra parameter for the internal talloc
+ * name (for debugging) */
+
+char *
+talloc_strndup_named_const (void *ctx, const char *str,
+			    size_t len, const char *name);
+
+/* use the __location__ macro from talloc.h to name a string according to its
+ * source location */
+
+#define talloc_strndup_debug(ctx, str, len) talloc_strndup_named_const (ctx, str, len, __location__)
+
+#endif