Program exits instead of handling malloc failure gracefully in internal_init()

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We are researchers from the University of Athens, working on cross-language analysis of Python packages with C/C++ native extensions.

Description

Τhe interval_init() function [1] checks whether malloc() [2] fails, but exits the program instead of handling the error gracefully.

Potential Improvement

It would be nice to handle memory allocations gracefully, instead of exiting the process as we do now.

References

[1]

ailist/ailist/src/ailist/interval.c

Line 11 in 07b7b8a

interval_t *interval_init(uint32_t start, uint32_t end, int32_t id_value)

[2]

ailist/ailist/src/ailist/interval.c

Line 15 in 07b7b8a

interval_t *i = (interval_t *)malloc(sizeof(interval_t));