add xxmalloc() macro to simply allocate a structure of a certain type

git-svn-id: http://arthurdejong.org/svn/nss-pam-ldapd/libnss_ldapd@89 ef36b2f9-881f-0410-afb5-c4e39611909c

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/xmalloc.h b/xmalloc.h
index d361a7b..a4a6238 100644
--- a/xmalloc.h
+++ b/xmalloc.h
@@ -19,20 +19,18 @@
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 */
 
-
 #ifndef _XMALLOC_H
 #define _XMALLOC_H 1
 
-
 #include <stdlib.h>
 
-
 /* malloc wrapper */
 void *xmalloc(size_t size);
 
+/* allocate size for a specific type */
+#define xxmalloc(type,count) (type *)xmalloc(sizeof(type)*(count))
 
 /* strdup wrapper */
 char *xstrdup(const char *s);
 
-
 #endif /* not _XMALLOC_H */