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)