Linking with nonstandard malloc

Ian Lance Taylor iant@google.com
Tue Jan 4 22:58:00 GMT 2011


Amittai Aviram <amittai.aviram@yale.edu> writes:

> 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!

It should just work.  If it doesn't, you're going to have to explain
more clearly precisely what you are doing and precisely what is going
wrong.

That said, note that glibc already uses Doug Lea's malloc.

Ian



More information about the Gcc-help mailing list