[PATCH] Introduce xmalloc, memory allocator with die_out_of_memory()

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 02:30:59PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 20 Mar 2015 13:30, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 02:53:39PM +0900, Masatake YAMATO wrote:
> > > In strace following code sentences are frequently used:
> > > 
> > >    var = malloc(fdsize);
> > >     if (!var)
> > >        die_out_of_memory();
> > > 
> > > This patch introduces xmalloc and friends which simplify
> > > above sentences like:
> > > 
> > >    var = xmalloc(fdsize);
> > > 
> > > Here friends are xcalloc and xrealloc.
> > 
> > Do we need xrealloc in its classic form, or rather an edition
> > with an integer overflow check?
> 
> 
> a xcalloc variant that doesn't clear memory would be nice (and checks the 
> multiplication),

xnmalloc?

> is there a standard naming for the array allocator ?

xnmalloc, xnrealloc?


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