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> If this is a "don't do that" situation, how can we get malloc debug
> printouts?

You can't call printf from malloc, because printf uses malloc to
allocate it's buffers.  You end up infinitely recursing.  If you
really want to do this, call setbuf(stdout,0) at the beginning of your
program (stderr too) to avoid the need for a buffer.