On Thursday 17 November 2011 14:16:10 DJ Delorie wrote:
> > don't we have xmalloc() ?
> 
> We do, but it exits without telling you why it's exiting, other than
> "out of memory".  Changed anyway.

true, but that's the standard in this tree i think.  although in the patch 
below, seems like you still use malloc() everywhere and there are no xmalloc() 
calls ...

> --- sim/rl78/configure.ac       1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
> +++ sim/rl78/configure.ac       17 Nov 2011 19:03:42 -0000
> @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
> +dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
> +
> +dnl Copyright (C) 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
> +Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> +dnl Contributed by Red Hat, Inc.

looks like you've got some breakage here :)
-mike