xmalloc: include size in the failure message

Out-of-memory errors can either be actual lack of memory, or bugs (like
code trying to call xmalloc(-1) by mistake). A little more information
may help tracking bugs reported by users.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/wrapper.c b/wrapper.c
index afb4f6f773a3ed909433778f4b4da3740ded2b18..fd8ead33ed72c37e690ee1fc5b8568f629c95145 100644 (file)
--- a/wrapper.c
+++ b/wrapper.c
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ void *xmalloc(size_t size)
                if (!ret && !size)
                        ret = malloc(1);
                if (!ret)
-                       die("Out of memory, malloc failed");
+                       die("Out of memory, malloc failed (tried to allocate %lu bytes)",
+                           (unsigned long)size);
        }
 #ifdef XMALLOC_POISON
        memset(ret, 0xA5, size);