Remove useless NULL check in python.c
I noticed that do_start_initialization, in python.c, checks the result
of xmalloc. However, xmalloc cannot fail, so this check is useless.
This patch also changes the code to use XNEWVEC.
gdb/ChangeLog
2020-02-19 Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
* python/python.c (do_start_initialization): Use XNEWVEC. Remove
NULL check.
diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 0077a98..e5df6bf 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2020-02-19 Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
+
+ * python/python.c (do_start_initialization): Use XNEWVEC. Remove
+ NULL check.
+
2020-02-19 Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@wdc.com>
* NEWS: Mention RISC-V GNU/Linux GDBserver support.
diff --git a/gdb/python/python.c b/gdb/python/python.c
index 27d6042..fbbc159 100644
--- a/gdb/python/python.c
+++ b/gdb/python/python.c
@@ -1679,12 +1679,7 @@
std::string oldloc = setlocale (LC_ALL, NULL);
setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
progsize = strlen (progname.get ());
- progname_copy = (wchar_t *) xmalloc ((progsize + 1) * sizeof (wchar_t));
- if (!progname_copy)
- {
- fprintf (stderr, "out of memory\n");
- return false;
- }
+ progname_copy = XNEWVEC (wchar_t, progsize + 1);
count = mbstowcs (progname_copy, progname.get (), progsize + 1);
if (count == (size_t) -1)
{
