/* xmalloc.c: malloc with error checking. Copyright 1992, 1993, 2008, 2010 Karl Berry. Copyright 2005 Olaf Weber. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This library 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 Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, see . */ #include void * xmalloc (size_t size) { void *new_mem = (void *)malloc(size ? size : 1); if (new_mem == NULL) { fprintf(stderr, "fatal: memory exhausted (xmalloc of %lu bytes).\n", (unsigned long)size); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } return new_mem; }