asprintf(3) says that the pointer is "undefined" after a failed call.
In the current glibc implementation it is just NULL. In principle the
call could return a valid pointer with bad contents or something.
We have two styles of error handling: in a majority of cases we would
check the return value, but sometimes we used (void) and relied on the
pointer not being set. In practice both styles should be equivalent,
but gcc doesn't like the second one with -Wunused-result. (Though only
sometimes. E.g. on my F34 box I don't get the same warnings as in CI,
even though the compiler version is very similar and the compilation
options are the same…). It's also nice to be consistent in our code base.
So let's always use the first style of error checking.