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From: Yaacov Fenster @ISO 882-3153  10-Oct-1992 1823
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Subject: RE: malloc() as a user defined function

> From: VBORMC::"MACRO32@WKUVX1.BITNET" "MAIL-11 Daemon"  9-OCT-1992 21:28:56.38
> To:   MACRO32@WKUVX1.BITNET
> CC:
> Subj: malloc() as a user defined function
>
>
> Hi netters:
>
>     In programming on dynamic memory allocation, I prefer doing check on
>     every malloc(). I.e.:
>
>     if ((p=(SOME_TYPE *)malloc(sizeof(SOME_TYPE))) == NULL) {
>         printf("Malloc error.\n");
>         exit(0);
>     }
>
>     It turned out it's a pain to type in the above four lines if I have
>     lots of malloc() invocations in the program, also, the program looks
>     ugly. So I tried to use a function called my_malloc():
>
>     SOME_TYPE *my_malloc()
>     {
>         SOME_TYPE *p;
>
>         if ((p=(SOME_TYPE *)malloc(sizeof(SOME_TYPE))) == NULL) {
>             printf("Malloc error.\n");
>             exit(0);
>         }
>         return(p);
>     }
>
Try my_malloc() returning type of "void *", this will convert into any "type *"
type.

        Yaacov

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