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Re: PATCH: Disable dynamic allocation in atexit

Richard Earnshaw wrote:

> Would it be reasonable to make atexit weakly reference malloc, and only
> call it if it's been linked in?  I can't imagine that there would be
> many applications that would blow the static atexit table that wouldn't
> call malloc at least once from some other location.

Yes, that would work too (assuming, of course, that you make the
corresponding change to link "free" in weakly from __call_exitprocs).
It wouldn't be quite as compact, but it would be more automatic.

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