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malloc_hook.3: Warn that these functions are deprecated 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Ivana Varekova 2010-10-19 12:32:26 +02:00 committed by Michael Kerrisk
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.\" Heavily based on glibc documentation
.\" Polished, added docs, removed glibc doc bug, 2002-07-20, aeb
.\"
.\" FIXME
.\" According to a Fedora downstream patch, malloc hooks are deprecated
.\" https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450187
.\" Integrate this upstream?
.TH MALLOC_HOOK 3 2002-07-20 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.TH MALLOC_HOOK 3 2010-10-13 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
__malloc_hook, __malloc_initialize_hook,
__memalign_hook, __free_hook, __realloc_hook,
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was asked for more memory.
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
These functions are GNU extensions.
.SH NOTES
The use of these hook functions is not safe in multithreaded programs,
and they are now deprecated.
.\" https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450187
Programmers should instead preempt calls to the relevant functions
by defining and exporting functions such as "malloc" and "free".
.SH "EXAMPLE"
Here is a short example of how to use these variables.
.sp