On glibc-based systems, you can replace malloc, free, new, delete, etc using /etc/ld.so.preload. There are quite a few allocators that can take advantage of this. Examples: hardened_malloc (used in GrapheneOS) scudo ( info ) (used in Android 11+) jemalloc (used in Android 10- , or Android 11+ on l…

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anon48875053 December 9, 2024, 10:13am 24

While I agree with you, only one member of the team has commented on this topic. So I don’t think that it’s fair to say that this is PG’s stance.

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