issue-470: Allows the default system allocator to be overidden

This is useful when you run into cases where you need an allocator
before tcmalloc has been fully initialized.


git-svn-id: http://gperftools.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@186 6b5cf1ce-ec42-a296-1ba9-69fdba395a50

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/system-alloc.cc b/src/system-alloc.cc
index e380d16..b6a87dd 100644
--- a/src/system-alloc.cc
+++ b/src/system-alloc.cc
@@ -449,6 +449,12 @@ void* DefaultSysAllocator::Alloc(size_t size, size_t *actual_size,
   return NULL;
 }
 
+ATTRIBUTE_WEAK ATTRIBUTE_NOINLINE
+SysAllocator *tc_get_sysalloc_override(SysAllocator *def)
+{
+  return def;
+}
+
 static bool system_alloc_inited = false;
 void InitSystemAllocators(void) {
   MmapSysAllocator *mmap = new (mmap_space) MmapSysAllocator();
@@ -469,7 +475,8 @@ void InitSystemAllocators(void) {
     sdef->SetChildAllocator(sbrk, 0, sbrk_name);
     sdef->SetChildAllocator(mmap, 1, mmap_name);
   }
-  sys_alloc = sdef;
+
+  sys_alloc = tc_get_sysalloc_override(sdef);
 }
 
 void* TCMalloc_SystemAlloc(size_t size, size_t *actual_size,