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Re: Problem with __malloc_hooks :-(


> Date: 29 Oct 1999 15:40:03 -0000
> From: Wolfram Gloger <wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de>

> Ah, I think I see, __malloc_hook is now set too _early_ ?  Not a
> single malloc() call has happened before main() (quite surprising) ?

Not surprising at all.  The only thing that could call it is a .so
initialiser or the glibc initialization code, and why should they?

[ld.so must not call the glibc malloc() before crt0 has run,
 so it would have to be called after crt0 and before main().]

-- 
Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>

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