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From: res@cbnews.att.com (Robert E. Stampfli)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: Need help monitoring malloc() and free()
Message-ID: <1991Jan20.185009.18694@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 20 Jan 91 18:50:09 GMT
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>What I was thinking is making a front end to malloc() and free(), so
>all calls to malloc() would actually call my routine and my routine
>would in turn call the malloc() that lives in libc.a.

Have you tried compiling your program with "-Dmalloc=Mymalloc -Dfree=Myfree"
on the compile line?  Obviously, you leave this off the step that compiles
your liaison code -- the actual instance of Mymalloc() and Myfree().
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