[llvm-dev] Wrapper functions for standard library functions

[James Henderson via llvm-dev]

Hi,

I don't know if there's any way to do this directly in the compiler, but
most linkers, including LLD, support a "--wrap" option. To wrap malloc(),
you can use "--wrap=malloc" (or -Wl,--wrap=malloc if running through the
compiler driver). This redirects all calls to malloc to a function called
__wrap_malloc. If you want to subsequently call the real malloc function,
you then call __real_malloc, so your example code above becomes:

__wrap_malloc(int size) {
    __real_malloc(size+4);  //call the real malloc here
}

Hope that helps.

James

On 27 December 2017 at 00:40, Barbora Murinová via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to wrap some of the library functions such as malloc() into
> for example:
>
> malloc_wrapper(int size) {
>     malloc(size+4);  //call the real malloc here
> }
>
> and have all uses of malloc replaced with malloc_wrapper. Is there a way
> to do that?
>
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