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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2010 Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
+ *
+ * This file may be redistributed under the terms of the
+ * GNU Lesser General Public License.
+ *
+ * General memory allocation wrappers for malloc, realloc and calloc
+ */
+
+#ifndef UTIL_LINUX_XALLOC_H
+#define UTIL_LINUX_XALLOC_H
+
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <err.h>
+
+static inline __attribute__((alloc_size(1)))
+void *xmalloc(const size_t size)
+{
+        void *ret = malloc(size);
+
+        if (!ret && size)
+                err(EXIT_FAILURE, "cannot allocate %zu bytes", size);
+        return ret;
+}
+
+static inline __attribute__((alloc_size(2)))
+void *xrealloc(void *ptr, const size_t size)
+{
+        void *ret = realloc(ptr, size);
+
+        if (!ret && size)
+                err(EXIT_FAILURE, "cannot allocate %zu bytes", size);
+        return ret;
+}
+
+static inline __attribute__((alloc_size(1,2)))
+void *xcalloc(const size_t nelems, const size_t size)
+{
+        void *ret = calloc(nelems, size);
+
+        if (!ret && size && nelems)
+                err(EXIT_FAILURE, "cannot allocate %zu bytes", size);
+        return ret;
+}
+
+#endif