Re: [PATCH] malloc_hook.3: modernize for glibc 2.34

[Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>]

* Paul Eggert:

> On 8/27/21 4:11 PM, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
>
>> All good until here.  (Maybe the glibc commit that removed this
>> could go in the commit message, if you know it.)
>
> I don't know it, unfortunately.
>
>>>>   Programmers should instead preempt calls to the relevant functions
>>>> -by defining and exporting functions such as "malloc" and "free".
>>>> +by defining and exporting
>>>> +.BR malloc (),
>>>> +.BR free (),
>>>> +.BR realloc (),
>>>> +and
>>>> +.BR calloc ().
>> Did this change with glibc 2.34?
>
> The glibc manual changed (it started documenting this stuff) but this
> part of the implementation did not change.

The documentation is somewhat older than 2.34 and was just minimally
amended.  It's here:

  Replacing malloc
  <https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Replacing-malloc.html>

In particular, it lists additional functions that may have to be
interposed due to application use.

Thanks,
Florian