On 21 March 2007 16:09, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 01:11:36PM +0100, Kai Tietz wrote:
>> #include <stdlib.h>
>> void *(my_malloc_hook)(size_t) = malloc;
>>
>> GCC tells me, that malloc isn't a constant symbol. Clear malloc is defined
>> by using the attribute dllimport, because it comes out of the MSVCRT and
>> has the name "__imp__malloc". But the import library has also the not
>> decored name stub function "_malloc". Did I something wrong or is there
>> something broken ?
>
> In i386_pe_mark_dllimport, we turn "malloc" into "*__imp_malloc",
> and the later is not constant. I expect we'd have to expand this
> differently if you wanted to make use of import library stubs.
Presumably there would be no problem in just waiting until runtime to
initialise the my_malloc_hook variable dynamically instead of trying to
statically initialise it?
cheers,
DaveK
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