Re: [Mingw-users] Replacing malloc() and using atexit()

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2003 03:23:42 +0100, you wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>>>So my question is:  how would I go about fixing things so that I can
>>>use the replacement malloc(), but still use atexit()?  Is there a way
>>>to tell DllMainCRTStartup to use the msvcrt malloc() function instead
>>>of the replacement?
>>
>>
>>One way would be to rewrite the startup code to use explicit dllimports
>>of crt functions using LoadLibrary/GetProcAddress.  That would ensure
>>that atexit/malloc/free. etc all came from msvcrt.dll.
>>
>>Another way would to be force the dll version in crt  startup by
>>activating  the _CRTIMP  macro so that the startup code references
>>__imp__malloc, etc. That, however, can lead to other problems with
>>multiple definitions.
> 

Another work around is to create your malloc as mymalloc and then define 
malloc mymalloc.

> 
> Is this something that should be reported as a bug or feature request
> to the MinGW developers?
>

Where aware of it, already, so no.

Earnie.