alt Hacker News The use of these hook functions is not safe in multithreaded
programs, and they are now deprecated. From glibc 2.24 onwards,
the __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
API, and from glibc 2.34 onwards, all the hook variables have been
removed from the API. Programmers should instead preempt calls to
the relevant functions by defining and exporting malloc(), free(),
realloc(), and calloc().
Yeah. Shame though because it gave you the option to control exactly when you hooked and didn't hook, which let stop and start debugging allocations based on arbitrary triggers.
The global variable approach was very useful and pretty low overhead.