1 /* xmalloc.c -- malloc with out of memory checking
2 Copyright (C) 1990-1996, 2000-2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
16 Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
31 #define _(str) gettext (str)
34 /* Exit value when the requested amount of memory is not available.
35 The caller may set it to some other value. */
36 int xmalloc_exit_failure
= EXIT_FAILURE
;
41 error (xmalloc_exit_failure
, 0, _("memory exhausted"));
42 /* The `noreturn' cannot be given to error, since it may return if
43 its first argument is 0. To help compilers understand the
44 xalloc_die does terminate, call exit. */
49 fixup_null_alloc (size_t n
)
55 p
= malloc ((size_t) 1);
61 /* Allocate N bytes of memory dynamically, with error checking. */
70 p
= fixup_null_alloc (n
);
74 /* Allocate memory for N elements of S bytes, with error checking. */
77 xcalloc (size_t n
, size_t s
)
83 p
= fixup_null_alloc (n
);
87 /* Change the size of an allocated block of memory P to N bytes,
89 If P is NULL, run xmalloc. */
92 xrealloc (void *p
, size_t n
)
98 p
= fixup_null_alloc (n
);