[PATCH] replace some raw xmalloc / xrealloc with the XNEW* macros

[Trevor Saunders]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 04:43:55PM +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Trevor,
> 
> > gas/ChangeLog:
> > 2016-03-19  Trevor Saunders  <tbsaunde+binutils@tbsaunde.org>
> > 
> > 	* listing.c (listing_message): Use XNEW style allocation macros.
> > 	* read.c (read_a_source_file): Likewise.
> > 	(read_symbol_name): Likewise.
> > 	(s_mri_common): Likewise.
> > 	(assign_symbol): Likewise.
> > 	(s_reloc): Likewise.
> > 	(emit_expr_with_reloc): Likewise.
> > 	(s_incbin): Likewise.
> > 	(s_include): Likewise.
> > 	* sb.c (sb_build): Likewise.
> > 	(sb_check): Likewise.
> 
> Approved - please apply.
> 
> Note - I find it irksome that the type has to be specified in these
> macros, rather than extract from the variable being (re)allocated,
> but I could not think of any clean, non-GCC specific, way of 
> achieving this.  So please go ahead with the patch as is.

yeah, my thinking was mostly that its no worse than T *foo = (T *)
xmalloc ();

Trev

> 
> Cheers
>   Nick
> 
>