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Change copyright notice from GPLv2+ to GPLv3+.
author Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
date Sun, 07 Oct 2007 19:14:58 +0200
parents b04902755c7f
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/* Safe automatic memory allocation with out of memory checking.
   Copyright (C) 2003, 2005, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   Written by Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>, 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 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */

#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 freesa() 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 */