Alternate method of forcing allocator initialization

That doesn't require a malloc/free every time we call ec_group_data()

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/lib/utils/mem_ops.cpp b/src/lib/utils/mem_ops.cpp
index 3fd463195..b7ecd5326 100644
--- a/src/lib/utils/mem_ops.cpp
+++ b/src/lib/utils/mem_ops.cpp
@@ -41,6 +41,13 @@ void deallocate_memory(void* p, size_t elems, size_t elem_size)
    std::free(p);
    }
 
+void initialize_allocator()
+   {
+#if defined(BOTAN_HAS_LOCKING_ALLOCATOR)
+   mlock_allocator::instance();
+#endif
+   }
+
 bool constant_time_compare(const uint8_t x[],
                            const uint8_t y[],
                            size_t len)