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Re: [PATCH v2] malloc: Remove malloc hooks (Bug 23328)
- From: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>
- To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- Cc: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2018 16:10:51 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] malloc: Remove malloc hooks (Bug 23328)
- References: <ddf39fca-aa0a-9b14-ee78-a1bfa1225623@redhat.com>
* Carlos O'Donell:
> For applications that require the hooks the functionality is moved
> entirely to a new shared library: libmalloc-extras.so. Applications
> should preload libmalloc-extras.so to get back the lost functionality.
> Static applications are not supported, but continue to operate with
> APIs doing nothing or returning errors depending on their semantics.
Usuallly, we remove functionality which is turned into compat symbols
outright. Why aren't we doing this here?