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In article <Bvv6pH.Gzy@cs.psu.edu>, ytang@red.crayola.cs.psu.edu (Yuan-Ling Tang) writes:
> 
> Hi netters:
> 
>     In programming on dynamic memory allocation, I prefer doing check on
>     every malloc(). I.e.:
>     ...
>     However another problem arises, what if I have many distinct types
>     of memory space to allocate? That is, I can't use the same type in
>     calling my_malloc(). So how can I pass a type to a function?

	Maybe something like this?

#define TALLOC(x)	{int p ; ((p = malloc(sizeof(x)) == NULL) ? \
					{perror("Malloc") ; exit(errno) } : \
					p ; }

	The sizeof() will resolve the type into the required number of bytes,
such that

	bptr = TALLOC(struct bogus) ;

	will allocate the correct size buffer, while performing the check
(I hope, I haven't tested that macro...)

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