From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@zembu.com>
Cc: Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>, binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Include alloca.h for bfd
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 11:42:00 -0000
Message-id: <3B854EA7.7020706@cygnus.com>
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X-SW-Source: 2001-08/msg00546.html

> Hmm, shame you can't use asprintf().  It does everything you want
>> except use bfd_malloc().
> 
> 
> Now that you mention it, we could use asprintf there.  There is an
> implementation in libiberty.  If it can't allocate memory, it sets the
> buffer to NULL.
> 
> Doesn't matter much, though.

Yes.  Its the bit where bfd_malloc() sets the error message that is missing.

	Andrew