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)