explain_malloc_or_die(3)

💖 explain_malloc_or_die(3) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Library Functions Manual section of the explain_malloc_or_die(3) page ✨ this one's short and sweet, and it's literally gonna save your whole program from the world's most cursed error message.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

explain_malloc_or_die — allocate and free dynamic memory and report errors 🫶

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <libexplain/malloc.h>
void *explain_malloc_or_die(size_t size);

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so the explain_malloc_or_die function is used to call the malloc(3) system call. no cap, that's its whole job.

but here's the plot twist 👀 — if it fails, it prints an explanation to stderr, which it gets from explain_malloc(3), and then the process terminates by calling exit(EXIT_FAILURE). so like... it doesn't fail gracefully, it just straight up ends it all. main character exit, honestly. 💀

this function is intended to be used in a fashion similar to the following example:

void *result = explain_malloc_or_die(size);

the one argument, bestie

• size — the size, exactly as to be passed to the malloc(3) system call. like, don't get creative with it, just pass what you'd pass to malloc(3). periodt. 💅

Returns:

• this function only returns on success. on failure, it prints an explanation and exits. that's it, that's the whole vibe. no second chances, no return value on error, just a dramatic exit. 🦋

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• malloc(3) — allocate and free dynamic memory
• explain_malloc(3) — explain malloc(3) errors
• exit(2) — terminate the calling process

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

libexplain version 1.4 Copyright (C) 2009 Peter Miller

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okay that's the whole page, my love 🌈 thank you for reading the explain_malloc_or_die(3) girlies' edition — go forth and never let a raw malloc(3) failure catch you off guard again. it's giving safe memory allocation with ✨receipts✨. mwah 🎀💜, and this was explain_malloc_or_die(3) from libexplain version 1.4, copyright 2009 Peter Miller — bye bestie! 🫶✨