operator new no longer routes through rtl_AllocMemory in libsalcpprt under gbuild link rules

Stephan Bergmann sbergman at redhat.com
Thu Mar 22 06:24:17 PDT 2012


On 03/22/2012 02:13 PM, Caolán McNamara wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 13:43 +0100, Michael Stahl wrote:
>> i don't care that much about which memory allocator we use, but well the
>> options are 1) link salcpprt into every executable (i.e. do it in
>> solenv) 2) link it just into soffice.bin 3) don't use it at all.
>
> If we do it at all I guess just for soffice.bin is sufficient really.

The uno and unopkg executables come to mind.

>> iirc the custom allocator was only used on Linux anyway because given
>> the way Windows DLLs work it's not possible to override operator new for
>> the whole process
>
> aha! I guess from the old solenv files then that libsalcpprt was linked
> in for all the unix-gcc using platforms, except macosx. I wonder if
> macosx was always a deliberate exclusion for some reason, or just
> accidental.

I unfortunately lost track long ago which platforms we use our own 
memory allocator on, which platforms we additionally use libsalcpprt on, 
and what the rationale was for the exceptions.

Stephan


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