Linking with nonstandard malloc

[Amittai Aviram]

On Jan 4, 2011, at 4:30 PM, Brian Budge wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Amittai Aviram <amittai.aviram@yale.edu> wrote:
>> Suppose I want to use my own malloc.c and malloc.h for malloc and related functions (based on Doug Lea's code), but use the standard C library (glibc) for all other C library functions.  Is there a way that I can tell the gcc linker to use my malloc code but glibc for everything else?  Thanks!
>> 
>> Amittai Aviram
>> PhD Student in Computer Science
>> Yale University
>> 646 483 2639
>> amittai.aviram@yale.edu
>> http://www.amittai.com
>> 
>> 
> 
> Have you tried just linking it in?  I believe it should just work.
> 
>  Brian

Alas, not so far.  In order to check, I put the following line at the start of dlmalloc in malloc.c:

write(1, "HIT\n", 5);

but I didn't see this message on my console when I called malloc. :-(  (I believe the the file #defines dlmalloc as malloc in the default case.)


Amittai Aviram
PhD Student in Computer Science
Yale University
646 483 2639
amittai.aviram@yale.edu
http://www.amittai.com