Re: [Bug-gsl] How about a function to set the allocation routines so Hans-Boehm GC could be used more easily?

[Brian Gough]

At Thu, 15 Feb 2007 06:44:58 -0900,
Britton Kerin wrote:
> 
> It would be nice if GSL had a call to allow clients to set the
> malloc/realloc/free
> used, like glib does:
> 
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-Memory-Allocation.html#g-mem-set-vtable
> 
> Of course given the nature of the data used with GSL it would probably
> be good to provide
> support for a vtable slot for at least GC_MALLOC_ATOMIC and use that
> when appropriate.

Thanks for your email.

I think the simplest solution is for the user to do this with the GNU
ld --wrap option, rather than changing GSL itself.  This will also
work for any other library.

http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.17/ld/Options.html#Options

-- 
Brian Gough
(GSL Maintainer)

Network Theory Ltd,
Publishing the GSL Manual - http://www.network-theory.co.uk/gsl/manual/