From 03703e1d478c5f040f53ffe6b6e850754d575ce5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Donald Buczek <buczek@molgen.mpg.de>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 18:32:20 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] mx_util: add mx_malloc_forever

---
 mx_util.c | 10 ++++++++++
 mx_util.h |  1 +
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mx_util.c b/mx_util.c
index 790fc6b..14d294c 100644
--- a/mx_util.c
+++ b/mx_util.c
@@ -553,6 +553,16 @@ int mx_strtoi64(char *str, int64_t *to)
     return 0;
 }
 
+void *mx_malloc_forever(size_t size)
+{
+    void *ret;
+    do {
+        ret=malloc(size);
+        assert(ret || (!ret && errno == ENOMEM));
+   } while (!ret);
+   return ret ;
+}
+
 char *mx_strdup_forever(char *str)
 {
     char *dup;
diff --git a/mx_util.h b/mx_util.h
index f79d77f..f8585fe 100644
--- a/mx_util.h
+++ b/mx_util.h
@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ int mx_strtoi16(char *str, int16_t *to);
 int mx_strtoi32(char *str, int32_t *to);
 int mx_strtoi64(char *str, int64_t *to);
 
+void *mx_malloc_forever(size_t size);
 char *mx_strdup_forever(char *str);
 int mx_vasprintf_forever(char **strp, const char *fmt, va_list ap);
 int mx_asprintf_forever(char **strp, const char *fmt, ...)  __attribute__ ((format(printf, 2, 3)));