2004-01-30 Marcus Brinkmann <marcus@g10code.de>

	* Makefile.am (libcommon_a_SOURCES): Add xasprintf.c.
	* miscellaneous.c (xasprintf): Moved to ...
	* xasprintf (xasprintf): ... here.  New file.
	This allows to use xasprintf without sucking in gpg-error.

1 files changed, 44 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/common/xasprintf.c b/common/xasprintf.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2c8fafc06
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/xasprintf.c
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+/* xasprintf.c
+ *	Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ *
+ * This file is part of GnuPG.
+ *
+ * GnuPG is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * GnuPG is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA
+ */
+
+#include <config.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+
+#include "util.h"
+#include "iobuf.h"
+
+/* Same as asprintf but return an allocated buffer suitable to be
+   freed using xfree.  This function simply dies on memory failure,
+   thus no extra check is required. */
+char *
+xasprintf (const char *fmt, ...)
+{
+  va_list ap;
+  char *buf, *p;
+
+  va_start (ap, fmt);
+  if (vasprintf (&buf, fmt, ap) < 0)
+    log_fatal ("asprintf failed: %s\n", strerror (errno));
+  va_end (ap);
+  p = xstrdup (buf);
+  free (buf);
+  return p;
+}