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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@ges.redhat.com>
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To: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: New target method returning the name of the malloc function?
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> On Sep 6,  9:17am, Pierre Muller wrote:
> 
> 
>> >May I suggest a new architecture method called for instance
>> >NAME_OF_MALLOC or MALLOC_FUNCTION_NAME? The default would be to return
>> >"malloc", but we could then change it to "_malloc" for the interix
>> >target.
> 
>> That would be great !
>> Because Pascal also does not define malloc...

How does pascal allocate [raw] memory?

> This would suggest that something other than a target dependent method
> is needed.  (It seems to me that it's both target and language dependent.)

(Ah, the old ``which target'' problem --- target architecture, target 
os, target abi, target inferior, .... :-)

Yes.  I think these are functions of the ABI and not the inferior.  Any 
interix inferior (local, remote) needs this override.  Hence they live 
in the architecture vector and not the target vector.

I'm not sure what to do about the language side of this though.  It 
could always be parameterized with the current frame's language -> not 
sure if that is sufficient though.

enjoy,
Andrew