From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
To: "Mynampati, Venkata S." <MynamVS@nsc-msg01.network.com>
Cc: "'gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org'" <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to tell compiler to use my_malloc inplace of normal 'malloc'
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 23:39:00 -0000
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On Aug 22, 2001, "Mynampati, Venkata S." <MynamVS@nsc-msg01.network.com> wrote:

> I read that while compiling i can tell the compiler to replace all mallocs
> with my wrapper function called 'my_malloc', in which, i do something
> and call malloc.

You can do this if you're using the GNU linker: it accepts
-wrap=malloc, so you define _wrap_malloc and call _real_malloc() in it
whenever you mean to call the actual malloc.  Of course, you only use
this at link time.

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