fftools/cmdutils: add error handling to allocate_array_elem()

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fftools/cmdutils.h b/fftools/cmdutils.h
index decd23040f..6b9d7f80ae 100644
--- a/fftools/cmdutils.h
+++ b/fftools/cmdutils.h
@@ -430,13 +430,12 @@ void *grow_array(void *array, int elem_size, int *size, int new_size);
  * Atomically add a new element to an array of pointers, i.e. allocate
  * a new entry, reallocate the array of pointers and make the new last
  * member of this array point to the newly allocated buffer.
- * Calls exit() on failure.
  *
  * @param array     array of pointers to reallocate
  * @param elem_size size of the new element to allocate
  * @param nb_elems  pointer to the number of elements of the array array;
  *                  *nb_elems will be incremented by one by this function.
- * @return pointer to the newly allocated entry
+ * @return pointer to the newly allocated entry or NULL on failure
  */
 void *allocate_array_elem(void *array, size_t elem_size, int *nb_elems);