/* Safe automatic memory allocation with out of memory checking. Copyright (C) 2003, 2005, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Written by Bruno Haible , 2003. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program 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 General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ #ifndef _XMALLOCA_H #define _XMALLOCA_H #include "malloca.h" #ifdef __cplusplus extern "C" { #endif /* xmalloca(N) is a checking safe variant of alloca(N). It allocates N bytes of memory allocated on the stack, that must be freed using freea() before the function returns. Upon failure, it exits with an error message. */ #if HAVE_ALLOCA # define xmalloca(N) \ ((N) < 4032 - sa_increment \ ? (void *) ((char *) alloca ((N) + sa_increment) + sa_increment) \ : xmmalloca (N)) extern void * xmmalloca (size_t n); #else # define xmalloca(N) \ xmalloc (N) #endif /* Maybe we should also define a variant xnmalloca (size_t n, size_t s) - behaves like xmalloca (n * s) If this would be useful in your application. please speak up. */ #ifdef __cplusplus } #endif #endif /* _XMALLOCA_H */