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

[Chet Ramey]

Robert Millan wrote:

> 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?

This hasn't been a problem to date.  As a practical matter, I think the
xmalloc/xrealloc interfaces appear in enough Gnu software to have well-
known interfaces.

As I said, I want other Gnu software (e.g., bash) to be able to override
the readline definitions of xmalloc and xrealloc and have all their
`application-space' (non-libc) memory allocation go through a single
interface.

Chet

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