[hacknews] emalloc

henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (05/19/84)

Minor new utility function:  emalloc(3) is a variant of malloc(3) that
does the same thing unless malloc() is unable to allocate the requested
memory.  When this happens, emalloc() invokes error(3) to print a message
and exit.  This is a convenience when the return from malloc() should be
checked [i.e., always] but there is nothing useful to be done when it fails.
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