Using Malloc Hooks

Question

I am trying to use malloc hook to create a custom function my_malloc (). In my main program, when I call malloc (), I want it to call my_malloc (), can someone please give me an example on how to do this in C

Answer 1

Have you looked? http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/libc/Hooks-for-Malloc.html

Answer 2

According to http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/libc/Hooks-for-Malloc.html here is how to do this with GCC libraries.

/* Prototypes for __malloc_hook, __free_hook */
 #include <malloc.h>

 /* Prototypes for our hooks.  */
 static void my_init_hook (void);
 static void *my_malloc_hook (size_t, const void *);
 static void my_free_hook (void*, 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;
   old_free_hook = __free_hook;
   __malloc_hook = my_malloc_hook;
   __free_hook = my_free_hook;
 }

 static void *
 my_malloc_hook (size_t size, const void *caller)
 {
   void *result;
   /* Restore all old hooks */
   __malloc_hook = old_malloc_hook;
   __free_hook = old_free_hook;
   /* Call recursively */
   result = malloc (size);
   /* Save underlying hooks */
   old_malloc_hook = __malloc_hook;
   old_free_hook = __free_hook;
   /* printf might call malloc, so protect it too. */
   printf ("malloc (%u) returns %p\n", (unsigned int) size, result);
   /* Restore our own hooks */
   __malloc_hook = my_malloc_hook;
   __free_hook = my_free_hook;
   return result;
 }

 static void
 my_free_hook (void *ptr, const void *caller)
 {
   /* Restore all old hooks */
   __malloc_hook = old_malloc_hook;
   __free_hook = old_free_hook;
   /* Call recursively */
   free (ptr);
   /* Save underlying hooks */
   old_malloc_hook = __malloc_hook;
   old_free_hook = __free_hook;
   /* printf might call free, so protect it too. */
   printf ("freed pointer %p\n", ptr);
   /* Restore our own hooks */
   __malloc_hook = my_malloc_hook;
   __free_hook = my_free_hook;
 }

 main ()
 {
   ...
 }

Answer 3

sbrk , malloc , malloc. Unix. . malloc Windows?

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Answer 4

, my_malloc_hook() mutlithreaded - . http://www.phpman.info/index.php/man/malloc_hook/3.

Answer 5

#undef malloc
#define malloc my_malloc

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