Re: [PATCH 2/2] malloc: aarch64: Add ifuncs for malloc functions

* Wilco Dijkstra:

> Hi Yury,
>
>> 2) General concern over using program's malloc that will inevitably
>> change the state of malloc implementation. E.g. what if we are debugging
>> malloc implementation itself and GDB is changing chunks behind the
>> scenes?
>
>> For 2) there isn't really a good and easy solution...
>
>
> I'm surprised that it's 2026 and debuggers haven't figured out how not
> to corrupt the program they are debugging...

It's hardly suprising because Linux does not provide a way to make a
system call using the ptrace interface.  I'm pretty sure debuggers
wouldn't bother with calling malloc if they just could make a mmap
system call in the target process to allocate some memory.

Thanks,
Florian