New dmnsn_malloc() function, and friends.

I'm tired of checking for malloc failures everywhere, considering it never
happens.  So just bail out whenever it does.  A lot of stuff is guaranteed
to succeed if it returns now.

1 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/libdimension/dimension/malloc.h b/libdimension/dimension/malloc.h
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+/*************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (C) 2010 Tavian Barnes <tavianator@gmail.com>               *
+ *                                                                       *
+ * This file is part of The Dimension Library.                           *
+ *                                                                       *
+ * The Dimension Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/  *
+ * or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License *
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the *
+ * License, or (at your option) any later version.                       *
+ *                                                                       *
+ * The Dimension Library is distributed in the hope that it will be      *
+ * useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty   *
+ * of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU  *
+ * Lesser General Public License for more details.                       *
+ *                                                                       *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public      *
+ * License along with this program.  If not, see                         *
+ * <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.                                       *
+ *************************************************************************/
+
+/*
+ * Seriously, how often does malloc fail?  And how often can you do something
+ * better than bail out when it does?  dmnsn_malloc() is like malloc in every
+ * way except it calls dmnsn_error() on failure.
+ */
+
+#include <stdlib.h> /* For size_t */
+
+void *dmnsn_malloc(size_t size);
+void *dmnsn_realloc(void *ptr, size_t size);
+char *dmnsn_strdup(const char *s);