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.\" Copyright 2002 Walter Harms (walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de)
.\" Distributed under GPL
.\" Heavily based on glibc documentation
.\" Polished, added docs, removed glibc doc bug, 2002-07-20, aeb
.TH MALLOC_HOOK 3 2002-07-20 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
__malloc_hook, __malloc_initialize_hook,
__memalign_hook, __free_hook, __realloc_hook,
__after_morecore_hook \- malloc debugging variables
.SH SYNOPSIS
.sp
.B "#include <malloc.h>"
.sp
.BI "void *(*__malloc_hook)(size_t " size ,
.BI "const void *" caller );
.sp
.BI "void *(*__realloc_hook)(void *" ptr ,
.BI "size_t " size ,
.BI "const void *" caller );
.sp
.BI "void *(*__memalign_hook)(size_t " alignment ,
.BI "size_t " size ,
.BI "const void *" caller );
.sp
.BI "void (*__free_hook)(void *" ptr ,
.BI "const void *" caller );
.sp
.B "void (*__malloc_initialize_hook)(void);"
.sp
.B "void (*__after_morecore_hook)(void);"
.SH DESCRIPTION
The GNU C library lets you modify the behavior of
.BR malloc (3),
.BR realloc (3),
and
.BR free (3)
by specifying appropriate hook functions.
You can use these hooks
to help you debug programs that use dynamic memory allocation,
for example.
.LP
The variable
.B __malloc_initialize_hook
points at a function that is called once when the malloc implementation
is initialized.
This is a weak variable, so it can be overridden in
the application with a definition like the following:
.br
.nf
void (*__malloc_initialize_hook)(void) = my_init_hook;
.fi
.br
Now the function
.IR my_init_hook ()
can do the initialization of all hooks.
.LP
The four functions pointed to by
.BR __malloc_hook ,
.BR __realloc_hook ,
.BR __memalign_hook ,
.B __free_hook
have a prototype like the functions
.BR malloc (3),
.BR realloc (3),
.BR memalign (3),
.BR free (3),
respectively, except that they have a final argument
.I caller
that gives the address of the caller of
.BR malloc (3),
etc.
.LP
The variable
.B __after_morecore_hook
points at a function that is called each time after
.BR sbrk (2)
was asked for more memory.
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
These functions are GNU extensions.
.SH "EXAMPLE"
Here is a short example of how to use these variables.
.sp
.nf
#include <stdio.h>
#include <malloc.h>
/* Prototypes for our hooks. */
static void my_init_hook(void);
static void *my_malloc_hook(size_t, const void *);
/* Variables to save original hooks. */
static void *(*old_malloc_hook)(size_t, const void *);
/* Override initializing hook from the C library. */
void (*__malloc_initialize_hook) (void) = my_init_hook;
static void
my_init_hook(void)
{
old_malloc_hook = __malloc_hook;
__malloc_hook = my_malloc_hook;
}
static void *
my_malloc_hook(size_t size, const void *caller)
{
void *result;
/* Restore all old hooks */
__malloc_hook = old_malloc_hook;
/* Call recursively */
result = malloc(size);
/* Save underlying hooks */
old_malloc_hook = __malloc_hook;
/* printf() might call malloc(), so protect it too. */
printf("malloc(%u) called from %p returns %p\\n",
(unsigned int) size, caller, result);
/* Restore our own hooks */
__malloc_hook = my_malloc_hook;
return result;
}
.fi
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR mallinfo (3),
.BR malloc (3),
.BR mcheck (3),
.BR mtrace (3)
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