Merge branch 'ms/ei-fixes' into dev

* ms/ei-fixes:
  ei: check memory was allocated
  ei: error if return value of ei_alloc_big is NULL

OTP-8943

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/erl_interface/src/decode/decode_big.c b/lib/erl_interface/src/decode/decode_big.c
index efe9c6e5d9..b5e9b45a3b 100644
--- a/lib/erl_interface/src/decode/decode_big.c
+++ b/lib/erl_interface/src/decode/decode_big.c
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ erlang_big *ei_alloc_big(unsigned int digit_bytes) {
     memset(b,(char)0,sizeof(erlang_big));
     if ( (b->digits = malloc(2*n)) == NULL) {
         free(b);
-        return 0;
+        return NULL;
     }
    
     b->arity = digit_bytes;