From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 07:02:34 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Merge with gnulib.  Use a single exit_failure variable rather
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Merge with gnulib.  Use a single exit_failure variable rather
than a separate one for each module.
---

diff --git a/lib/xalloc.h b/lib/xalloc.h
index c9508e5808..c7986f510d 100644
--- a/lib/xalloc.h
+++ b/lib/xalloc.h
@@ -31,11 +31,6 @@
 #  define ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN __attribute__ ((__noreturn__))
 # endif
 
-/* Exit value when the requested amount of memory is not available.
-   It is initialized to EXIT_FAILURE, but the caller may set it to
-   some other value.  */
-extern int xalloc_exit_failure;
-
 /* If this pointer is non-zero, run the specified function upon each
    allocation failure.  It is initialized to zero. */
 extern void (*xalloc_fail_func) (void);
@@ -46,7 +41,8 @@ extern void (*xalloc_fail_func) (void);
 extern char const xalloc_msg_memory_exhausted[];
 
 /* This function is always triggered when memory is exhausted.  It is
-   in charge of honoring the three previous items.  This is the
+   in charge of honoring the two previous items.  It exits with status
+   exit_failure (defined in exitfail.h).  This is the
    function to call when one wants the program to die because of a
    memory allocation failure.  */
 extern void xalloc_die (void) ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN;