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> This is a better idea.  Even better, just leave the other programs as
> is and make sysfatal a default.  Thanks!

This is still likely to require quite a bit of change in libmp; if
it's currently calling sysfatal, then it's very likely full of
things like:

	x = a();
	y = b()
	return mpadd(x, y);

which means that if b() errors, then x is leaked.