crypto/mem.c(CRYPTO_malloc_locked()) question

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

I'm not sure I understand the use or purpose of CRYPTO_malloc_locked()
and friends.  Is it meant to be used for some kind of special locking,
other than the locking that correctly implemented OS's have in their
allocation routines?

As far as I can see, CRYPTO_malloc_locked and friends are only used in
crypto/rsa/rsa_lib.c (masqueraded as Malloc_locked() and Free_locked()).

If it's supposed to be used for extra locking, wouldn't reimplementing
them to use the OpenSSL locking routines be a good thing?

The reason I'm asking is that I want to put some debugging code around
the actual call to malloc_locked_func(), and it feels that code should
be inside the lock as well...

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