On 05/11/2020 10:13 AM, Jose Fonseca wrote:
Hi,
To give everybody a bit of background context, this email comes from
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/2911 .
The short story is that Gallium components (but not Mesa) used to have
their malloc/free calls intercepted, to
Hi,
On Mon, 2020-05-11 at 16:13 +, Jose Fonseca wrote:
> Some might retort: why not just play some tricks with the linker, and
> intercept all malloc/free calls, without actually having to modify
> any source code?
>
> Yes, that's indeed technically feasible. And is precisely the sort
> of
On Mon, 2020-05-11 at 16:13 +, Jose Fonseca wrote:
> Some might retort: why not just play some tricks with the linker, and
> intercept all malloc/free calls, without actually having to modify
> any source code?
>
> Yes, that's indeed technically feasible. And is precisely the sort
> of trick
Sorry for the top-post.
Very quick comment: If part of your objective is to fulfill Vulkan's
requirements, we need a LOT more plumbing than just
MALLOC/CALLOC/FREE. The Vulkan callbacks aren't set at a global level
when the driver is loaded but are provided to every call that
allocates anything
Hi,
To give everybody a bit of background context, this email comes from
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/2911 .
The short story is that Gallium components (but not Mesa) used to have their
malloc/free calls intercepted, to satisfy certain needs: 1) memory debugging on
