[PATCH v2 0/2] malloc: introduce ifuncs for malloc functions

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Wed May 6 18:41:47 GMT 2026


* Yury Khrustalev:

> 2) Allow targets to provide their own resolvers (e.g. aarch64 may use
>    this to implement resolvers that return memory tagging implementations
>    when this is supported and requested).

I looked at this recently and it's rather desirable to tag chunks added
to tcache so that they can be returned directly from a future malloc
call.  This means that memory tagging cannot be implemented as a pure
wrapper.

Thanks,
Florian



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