On 27 September 2016 at 19:32, Florian Weimer wrote: > * 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. Right, std::stringstream doesn't allocate any memory itself, but std::string does, and that is instantiated in the libstdc++.so library. > I don't know if there are mechanisms on mingw which are comparable to > ELF symbol interposition.