On 11/21/2013 12:52 PM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote: > does xalloc-die really > needs to report using error()?
xalloc-die is for use by standalone programs which desire a particular standard way of handling memory exhaustion, namely a diagnostic and nonzero exit status like this: $ od -S 1152921504606846976 od: memory exhausted $ echo $? 1 If you'd rather not have your program behave that way, or if you don't want to depend on the error module, you can substitute your own implementation of the xalloc-die module, and invoke gnulib-tool with the --avoid=xalloc-die option. For sanity's sake your implementation should include xalloc.h so that its malloc_die signature matches the expected one.
