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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)