diff --git a/src/core/CMakeLists.txt b/src/core/CMakeLists.txt
index a6d464e473..85ed8222a5 100644
--- a/src/core/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/core/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
add_files(
- alloc_func.cpp
- alloc_func.hpp
alloc_type.hpp
backup_type.hpp
base_bitset_type.hpp
diff --git a/src/core/alloc_func.cpp b/src/core/alloc_func.cpp
deleted file mode 100644
index 00f9ecdb1a..0000000000
--- a/src/core/alloc_func.cpp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * This file is part of OpenTTD.
- * OpenTTD is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2.
- * OpenTTD is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
- * See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with OpenTTD. If not, see .
- */
-
-/** @file alloc_func.cpp Functions to 'handle' memory allocation errors */
-
-#include "../stdafx.h"
-
-#include "../error_func.h"
-
-#include "../safeguards.h"
-
-/**
- * Function to exit with an error message after malloc() or calloc() have failed
- * @param size number of bytes we tried to allocate
- */
-[[noreturn]] void MallocError(size_t size)
-{
- FatalError("Out of memory. Cannot allocate {} bytes", size);
-}
-
-/**
- * Function to exit with an error message after realloc() have failed
- * @param size number of bytes we tried to allocate
- */
-[[noreturn]] void ReallocError(size_t size)
-{
- FatalError("Out of memory. Cannot reallocate {} bytes", size);
-}
diff --git a/src/core/alloc_func.hpp b/src/core/alloc_func.hpp
deleted file mode 100644
index 3bc4dde683..0000000000
--- a/src/core/alloc_func.hpp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,131 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * This file is part of OpenTTD.
- * OpenTTD is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2.
- * OpenTTD is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
- * See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with OpenTTD. If not, see .
- */
-
-/** @file alloc_func.hpp Functions related to the allocation of memory */
-
-#ifndef ALLOC_FUNC_HPP
-#define ALLOC_FUNC_HPP
-
-/*
- * Functions to exit badly with an error message.
- * It has to be linked so the error messages are not
- * duplicated in each object file making the final
- * binary needlessly large.
- */
-
-[[noreturn]] void MallocError(size_t size);
-[[noreturn]] void ReallocError(size_t size);
-
-/**
- * Checks whether allocating memory would overflow size_t.
- *
- * @param element_size Size of the structure to allocate.
- * @param num_elements Number of elements to allocate.
- */
-inline void CheckAllocationConstraints(size_t element_size, size_t num_elements)
-{
- if (num_elements > SIZE_MAX / element_size) MallocError(SIZE_MAX);
-}
-
-/**
- * Checks whether allocating memory would overflow size_t.
- *
- * @tparam T Structure to allocate.
- * @param num_elements Number of elements to allocate.
- */
-template
-inline void CheckAllocationConstraints(size_t num_elements)
-{
- CheckAllocationConstraints(sizeof(T), num_elements);
-}
-
-/**
- * Simplified allocation function that allocates the specified number of
- * elements of the given type. It also explicitly casts it to the requested
- * type.
- * @note throws an error when there is no memory anymore.
- * @note the memory contains garbage data (i.e. possibly non-zero values).
- * @tparam T the type of the variable(s) to allocation.
- * @param num_elements the number of elements to allocate of the given type.
- * @return nullptr when num_elements == 0, non-nullptr otherwise.
- */
-template
-inline T *MallocT(size_t num_elements)
-{
- /*
- * MorphOS cannot handle 0 elements allocations, or rather that always
- * returns nullptr. So we do that for *all* allocations, thus causing it
- * to behave the same on all OSes.
- */
- if (num_elements == 0) return nullptr;
-
- /* Ensure the size does not overflow. */
- CheckAllocationConstraints(num_elements);
-
- T *t_ptr = (T*)malloc(num_elements * sizeof(T));
- if (t_ptr == nullptr) MallocError(num_elements * sizeof(T));
- return t_ptr;
-}
-
-/**
- * Simplified allocation function that allocates the specified number of
- * elements of the given type. It also explicitly casts it to the requested
- * type.
- * @note throws an error when there is no memory anymore.
- * @note the memory contains all zero values.
- * @tparam T the type of the variable(s) to allocation.
- * @param num_elements the number of elements to allocate of the given type.
- * @return nullptr when num_elements == 0, non-nullptr otherwise.
- */
-template
-inline T *CallocT(size_t num_elements)
-{
- /*
- * MorphOS cannot handle 0 elements allocations, or rather that always
- * returns nullptr. So we do that for *all* allocations, thus causing it
- * to behave the same on all OSes.
- */
- if (num_elements == 0) return nullptr;
-
- T *t_ptr = (T*)calloc(num_elements, sizeof(T));
- if (t_ptr == nullptr) MallocError(num_elements * sizeof(T));
- return t_ptr;
-}
-
-/**
- * Simplified reallocation function that allocates the specified number of
- * elements of the given type. It also explicitly casts it to the requested
- * type. It extends/shrinks the memory allocation given in t_ptr.
- * @note throws an error when there is no memory anymore.
- * @note the pointer to the data may change, but the data will remain valid.
- * @tparam T the type of the variable(s) to allocation.
- * @param t_ptr the previous allocation to extend/shrink.
- * @param num_elements the number of elements to allocate of the given type.
- * @return nullptr when num_elements == 0, non-nullptr otherwise.
- */
-template
-inline T *ReallocT(T *t_ptr, size_t num_elements)
-{
- /*
- * MorphOS cannot handle 0 elements allocations, or rather that always
- * returns nullptr. So we do that for *all* allocations, thus causing it
- * to behave the same on all OSes.
- */
- if (num_elements == 0) {
- free(t_ptr);
- return nullptr;
- }
-
- /* Ensure the size does not overflow. */
- CheckAllocationConstraints(num_elements);
-
- t_ptr = (T*)realloc(static_cast(t_ptr), num_elements * sizeof(T));
- if (t_ptr == nullptr) ReallocError(num_elements * sizeof(T));
- return t_ptr;
-}
-
-#endif /* ALLOC_FUNC_HPP */
diff --git a/src/safeguards.h b/src/safeguards.h
index daf941482a..ba8ab24eb5 100644
--- a/src/safeguards.h
+++ b/src/safeguards.h
@@ -10,22 +10,15 @@
*
* Unsafe methods are, for example, strndup and strncpy because they may leave the
* string without a null termination, but also strdup and strndup because they can
- * return nullptr and then all strdups would need to be guarded against that instead
- * of using the current MallocT/ReallocT/CallocT technique of just giving the user
- * an error that too much memory was used instead of spreading that code though
- * the whole code base.
+ * return nullptr and then all strdups would need to be guarded against.
*/
#ifndef SAFEGUARDS_H
#define SAFEGUARDS_H
-/* Use MallocT instead. */
+/* Use std::vector/std::unique_ptr/new instead. */
#define malloc SAFEGUARD_DO_NOT_USE_THIS_METHOD
-
-/* Use MallocT instead. */
#define calloc SAFEGUARD_DO_NOT_USE_THIS_METHOD
-
-/* Use ReallocT instead. */
#define realloc SAFEGUARD_DO_NOT_USE_THIS_METHOD
/* Use std::string instead. */
diff --git a/src/spritecache.cpp b/src/spritecache.cpp
index a81c5d4a32..a4eeb809ac 100644
--- a/src/spritecache.cpp
+++ b/src/spritecache.cpp
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
/** @file spritecache.cpp Caching of sprites. */
#include "stdafx.h"
-#include "core/alloc_func.hpp"
#include "random_access_file_type.h"
#include "spriteloader/grf.hpp"
#include "spriteloader/makeindexed.h"
diff --git a/src/stdafx.h b/src/stdafx.h
index e9d897c4ba..0584cb36fc 100644
--- a/src/stdafx.h
+++ b/src/stdafx.h
@@ -321,15 +321,6 @@ char (&ArraySizeHelper(T (&array)[N]))[N];
# define MAX_PATH 260
#endif
-/**
- * Version of the standard free that accepts const pointers.
- * @param ptr The data to free.
- */
-inline void free(const void *ptr)
-{
- free(const_cast(ptr));
-}
-
#if defined(_MSC_VER) && !defined(_DEBUG)
# define IGNORE_UNINITIALIZED_WARNING_START __pragma(warning(push)) __pragma(warning(disable:4700))
# define IGNORE_UNINITIALIZED_WARNING_STOP __pragma(warning(pop))