kwset: allow building with GCC 8

kwset: allow building with GCC 8

The kwset functionality makes use of the obstack code, which expects to
be handed a function that can allocate large chunks of data. It expects
that function to accept a `size` parameter of type `long`.

This upsets GCC 8 on Windows, because `long` does not have the same
bit size as `size_t` there.

Now, the proper thing to do would be to switch to `size_t`. But this
would make us deviate from the "upstream" code even further, making it
hard to synchronize with newer versions, and also it would be quite
involved because that `long` type is so invasive in that code.

Let's punt, and instead provide a super small wrapper around
`xmalloc()`.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>