+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #450186 +++

Cloned for Fedora 9 tracking.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Alternatives to Malloc Hooks and RHEL?
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 10:20:06 -0700
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper>

Johnray Fuller wrote:
> According to this post:
> 
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2006-07/msg00108.html
> 
> One should not use malloc hooks as they are deprecated.

Indeed, the will actually stop working completely in the not so distant
future.  They also don't really work for multi-threaded code anymore.


-- Additional comment from jbastian on 2008-06-05 15:01 EST --
As indicated above, malloc hooks are broken and going away, but the
malloc_hook(3) man page does not reflect this.  Can it be updated to indicate
it's deprecated?