* all mallocs now use xmalloc (and so are OOM error safe), and

the common error handling saves a few bytes.  Thanks to
Bob Tinsley <bob@earthrise.demon.co.uk> for the patch.
 -Erik

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/dd.c b/dd.c
index 0d5b3e8..f40dec7 100644
--- a/dd.c
+++ b/dd.c
@@ -114,11 +114,7 @@ extern int dd_main(int argc, char **argv)
 		argv++;
 	}
 
-	buf = malloc(blockSize);
-	if (buf == NULL) {
-		fprintf(stderr, "Cannot allocate buffer\n");
-		exit(FALSE);
-	}
+	buf = xmalloc(blockSize);
 
 	intotal = 0;
 	outTotal = 0;