--- a/common/strhelp.h	Fri Apr 04 17:13:35 2014 +0200
+++ b/common/strhelp.h	Fri Apr 04 17:58:14 2014 +0200
@@ -23,6 +23,15 @@
 void xfree ( void *p );
 
 /**
+ * @brief Terminating variant of asprintf
+ *
+ * This function behaves exactly like asprintf(3) but will terminate
+ * when an error occures (usally that means that memoy allocation
+ * failed).
+ */
+int xasprintf (char **strp, const char *fmt, ...);
+
+/**
  * @brief Returns the length of the given %NULL-terminated
  * string array str_array.
  * @param[in] str_array a %NULL-terminated array of strings