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+/* Copyright(c) 1986 Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc.
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#define	import_kernel
+#define	import_knames
+#define import_spp
+#include <iraf.h>
+
+
+
+/* ZMALOC -- Allocate space on the heap.  NULL is returned if the buffer
+ * cannot be allocated, otherwise the address of the buffer is returned
+ * in "buf".
+ */
+int
+ZMALOC (
+  XINT	*buf,			/* receives address of buffer		*/
+  XINT	*nbytes,		/* buffer size, machine bytes		*/
+  XINT	*status 		/* status return: XOK or XERR		*/
+)
+{
+	register char *bufptr;
+	int      stat;
+
+	bufptr = malloc ((size_t)*nbytes);
+	if (bufptr != NULL) {
+	    *buf = ADDR_TO_LOC(bufptr);
+            if (*buf > 0)
+                *status = XOK;
+            else
+                *status = XERR;
+	} else
+	    *status = XERR;
+
+	stat = *status;
+	return (stat);
+}