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1 /* Safe automatic memory allocation with out of memory checking.
2    Copyright (C) 2003, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3    Written by Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>, 2003.
4 
5    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
6    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
7    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
8    any later version.
9 
10    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
13    GNU General Public License for more details.
14 
15    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
16    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
17    Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.  */
18 
19 #ifndef _XALLOCSA_H
20 #define _XALLOCSA_H
21 
22 #include "allocsa.h"
23 
24 
25 #ifdef __cplusplus
26 extern "C" {
27 #endif
28 
29 
30 /* xallocsa(N) is a checking safe variant of alloca(N).  It allocates N bytes
31    of memory allocated on the stack, that must be freed using freesa() before
32    the function returns.  Upon failure, it exits with an error message.  */
33 #if HAVE_ALLOCA
34 # define xallocsa(N) \
35   ((N) < 4032 - sa_increment					    \
36    ? (void *) ((char *) alloca ((N) + sa_increment) + sa_increment) \
37    : xmallocsa (N))
38 extern void * xmallocsa (size_t n);
39 #else
40 # define xallocsa(N) \
41   xmalloc (N)
42 #endif
43 
44 /* Maybe we should also define a variant
45     xnallocsa (size_t n, size_t s) - behaves like xallocsa (n * s)
46    If this would be useful in your application. please speak up.  */
47 
48 
49 #ifdef __cplusplus
50 }
51 #endif
52 
53 
54 #endif /* _XALLOCSA_H */
55