Paul Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > what is any of this for in the first place?
> >
> >You mean why do we allos someone to define lt_dlmalloc, lt_dlrealloc,
> >and lt_dlfree? I don't know :)
>
> yes, thats precisely what i mean. what problem is this attempting to
> solve? some bizarre platform where ltdl.c can't call malloc()?
Personally I consider this to be a good thing for libraries. It is useful
if you want to use a different (underlying) memory allocation API.
Imagine you want to pass part of a shared memory arena (IRIX uses such)
and libltdl.so tries to free() it with the standard libc call, this might
fail and crash the program. Also M$-Windows knows different
memory allocator APIs.
Cheers,
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