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NAME

       firestring_malloc - malloc(3) with internal result checking

SYNOPSIS

       #include <firestring.h>
       -lfirestring

       void *firestring_malloc(const size_t size)

DESCRIPTION

       firestring_malloc()  acts exactly like malloc(3) except that it detects
       malloc  failures,  prints  an  error  and  exit(3)  with  exit   status
       EXIT_FAILURE.  In most programs, malloc failures are unrecoverable, and
       this is the preferred behaviour.

RETURN VALUE

       If firestring_malloc() returns, it always returns a new memory area  of
       size bytes. It never returns NULL.

AUTHOR

       Ian Gulliver <ian@penguinhosting.net>

SEE ALSO

       libfirestring(3)

                                  2002-03-31              firestring_malloc(3)