Memory allocation failure checks, and a simpler new() function

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/utils.c b/utils.c
index 2cc5258..16a53a3 100644
--- a/utils.c
+++ b/utils.c
@@ -172,5 +172,13 @@ size_t unescape_string(char *dest, const char *src, size_t bufsize)
 #undef PUT
 }
 
+void *memcheck(void *p)
+{
+    if (p == NULL) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "memory allocation failure\n");
+        _exit(1);
+    }
+    return p;
+}
 
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