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Re: Problem with __malloc_hooks :-(


Hello,

> Not surprising at all.  The only thing that could call it is a .so
> initialiser or the glibc initialization code, and why should they?
> 
> [ld.so must not call the glibc malloc() before crt0 has run,
>  so it would have to be called after crt0 and before main().]

I may have been dreaming but until recently the earliest malloc()
calls appeared to come from ld.so (on i586-linux).

Regards,
Wolfram.

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