Static library usage

[Jason Evans]

On Mar 20, 2013, at 9:49 AM, Adam Fried-Gintis <jemalloc at icosm.net> wrote:
> I've noticed that when linking with the static libjemalloc(_pic).a, initialization does not occur unless you make a jemalloc call within your code. In other words, I have to call something like malloc_stats_print() or malloc_usable_size() to get jemalloc initialized. If I don't do this, the normal malloc continues to be used. This is different from the behavior of the shared library. Is this a limitation somewhere, or a bug, or even a autogen/configure setting that I missed? If it can't be changed/fixed, it would be great to see this documented - it's certainly not obvious.

This sounds like a weird side effect of lazy run-time symbol resolution in the operating system's dynamic loader.  What platform is this happening on?

Jason