Make possible to check memory allocations inside chromium

base/process/memory_win.cc

 // Copyright (c) 2013 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 // found in the LICENSE file.
 
 #include "base/process/memory.h"
 
 #include <psapi.h>
 
 #include "base/logging.h"
 #include "base/memory/scoped_ptr.h"
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   HMODULE instance = NULL;
   if (!::GetModuleHandleExA(GET_MODULE_HANDLE_EX_FLAG_FROM_ADDRESS |
                             GET_MODULE_HANDLE_EX_FLAG_UNCHANGED_REFCOUNT,
                             static_cast<char*>(address),
                             &instance)) {
     NOTREACHED();
   }
   return instance;
 }
 
+// TODO(b.kelemen): implement it with the required semantics. On Linux this is
+// implemented with a weak symbol that is overridden by tcmalloc. This is
+// neccessary because base cannot have a direct dependency on tcmalloc. Since
+// weak symbols are not supported on Windows this will involve some build time
+// magic, much like what is done for libcrt in order to override the allocation
+// functions.
+bool UncheckedMalloc(size_t size, void** result) {
+  *result = malloc(size);
+  return *result != NULL;
+}
+
 }  // namespace base