From 8bd9fd50014424643bddfde51423d42e0fc60800 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:09:51 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] 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>
---
 wrapper.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/wrapper.c b/wrapper.c
index afb4f6f773..fd8ead33ed 100644
--- 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);
-- 
2.11.4.GIT