+#include "xbt/log.h"
+#include "xbt/misc.h"
+#include "xbt/asserts.h"
+
+#include "simgrid_config.h"
+
+SG_BEGIN_DECL()
+
+#include <string.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <stdarg.h> /* va_list */
+
+/* They live in asserts.h, but need to be declared before this module.
+ double declaration to cut dependency cycle */
+/**
+ * @addtogroup XBT_error
+ *
+ * @{
+ */
+/** @brief Kill the program in silence */
+XBT_PUBLIC(void) xbt_abort(void) _XBT_GNUC_NORETURN;
+
+/**
+ * @brief Kill the program with an error message
+ * \param ... a format string and its arguments
+ *
+ * Things are so messed up that the only thing to do now, is to stop the
+ * program.
+ *
+ * The message is handled by a CRITICAL logging request, and may consist of a
+ * format string with arguments.
+ */
+#define xbt_die(...) \
+ do { \
+ XBT_CCRITICAL(xbt, __VA_ARGS__); \
+ xbt_abort(); \
+ } while (0)
+/** @} */
+
+XBT_LOG_EXTERNAL_CATEGORY(xbt);
+
+/* these ones live in str.h, but redeclare them here so that we do
+ not need to load the whole str.h and its heavy dependencies */
+#ifndef __USE_GNU /* do not redeclare existing headers */
+XBT_PUBLIC(int) asprintf(char **ptr, const char *fmt, /*args */
+ ...) _XBT_GNUC_PRINTF(2, 3);
+XBT_PUBLIC(int) vasprintf(char **ptr, const char *fmt, va_list ap);
+#endif
+XBT_PUBLIC(char *) bprintf(const char *fmt, ...) _XBT_GNUC_PRINTF(1, 2);
+
+/** @addtogroup XBT_syscall
+ * @brief Malloc and associated functions, killing the program on error (with \ref XBT_ex)
+ *
+ * @{
+ */
+
+#if defined(__GNUC__) || defined(DOXYGEN)
+/** @brief Like strdup, but xbt_die() on error */
+static inline __attribute__ ((always_inline))
+char *xbt_strdup(const char *s)
+{
+ char *res = NULL;
+ if (s) {
+ res = strdup(s);
+ if (!res)
+ xbt_die("memory allocation error (strdup returned NULL)");
+ }
+ return res;
+}