Re: [Bug-readline] [PATCH] hide symbols for helper xmalloc/xrealloc/xfree functions

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 08:50:27AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > libreadline is exporting symbols for its internal helper
> > xmalloc/xrealloc/xfree functions.  These function names are
> > quite common, but might not behave exactly the same way as
> > readline expects.
> 
> I want applications to have the option to override these functions if
> they so choose.

This is troublesome.  Imagine you have a large application whose behaviour
relies on a specific behaviour of xmalloc.  It is out of the question to
change how this xmalloc will work.

Now imagine you want to use libreadline in this program, and it turns out
your xmalloc breaks it completely.

Is there any reasonable solution to this?

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