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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: hacknews
Subject: emalloc(3) arrives 
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Date: Fri, 18-May-84 17:39:24 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 18 17:39:24 1984
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Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Minor new utility function:  emalloc(3) is a variant of malloc(3) that
does the same thing unless malloc() is unable to allocate the requested
memory.  When this happens, emalloc() invokes error(3) to print a message
and exit.  This is a convenience when the return from malloc() should be
checked [i.e., always] but there is nothing useful to be done when it fails.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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