* Nikolaus Dunn: > std::ostringstream however does not call my new OR delete with no > optimization. With -O2, it calls only my delete. > > If I do not attempt to wrap malloc and free, I get the same > result. std::vector calls my new and delete, ostringstream calls > neither. > > The command line I used to compile it is: > g++ -g -O2 --std=c++14 -Wl,-wrap,malloc -Wl,-wrap,free Test.c -o test.exe “-Wl,-wrap,malloc -Wl,-wrap,free” is only effective for newly-compiled code. Your example probably uses some template instantiations which are supplied by libstdc++, and these will keep calling the unwrapped malloc/free implementations. I don't know if there are mechanisms on mingw which are comparable to ELF symbol interposition.