From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: malloc() indirection 11 Jul 1998 01:12:52 -0700 Message-ID: <01BDAC56.B2CB6140.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos> To: "gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" , "'Kurt A. Stephens'" Kurt A. Stephens wrote: > I'd like to propose a change to the cygwin32.dll. > The goal is to allow user defined functions for malloc(), realloc(), and > free() can be used > instead of the standard allocator. > If you link an application with your own malloc functions, cygwinb19.dll will forget about internal functions and will call your ones. You have to provide 4 functions - malloc, free, realloc and calloc. For example, cygwin-compiled Xemacs doesn't use cygwin's malloc, but provides its own malloc. -- Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos Moscow, Russia - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".