diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d5ed553..3fc3418 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -500,6 +500,36 @@ if (redisInitiateSSLWithContext(c, ssl) != REDIS_OK) {
 }
 ```
 
+## Allocator injection
+
+Hiredis uses a pass-thru structure of function pointers defined in
+[alloc.h](https://github.com/redis/hiredis/blob/f5d25850/alloc.h#L41) that conttain
+the currently configured allocation and deallocation functions.  By default they
+just point to libc (`malloc`, `calloc`, `realloc`, etc).
+
+### Overriding
+
+One can override the allocators like so:
+
+```c
+hiredisAllocFuncs myfuncs = {
+    .mallocFn = my_malloc,
+    .callocFn = my_calloc,
+    .reallocFn = my_realloc,
+    .strdupFn = my_strdup,
+    .freeFn = my_free,
+};
+
+// Override allocators (function returns current allocators if needed)
+hiredisAllocFuncs orig = hiredisSetAllocators(&myfuncs);
+```
+
+To reset the allocators to their default libc function simply call:
+
+```c
+hiredisResetAllocators();
+```
+
 ## AUTHORS
 
 Hiredis was written by Salvatore Sanfilippo (antirez at gmail) and
diff --git a/alloc.c b/alloc.c
index 2b19c48..7fb6b35 100644
--- a/alloc.c
+++ b/alloc.c
@@ -34,11 +34,11 @@
 #include <stdlib.h>
 
 hiredisAllocFuncs hiredisAllocFns = {
-    .malloc = malloc,
-    .calloc = calloc,
-    .realloc = realloc,
-    .strdup = strdup,
-    .free = free,
+    .mallocFn = malloc,
+    .callocFn = calloc,
+    .reallocFn = realloc,
+    .strdupFn = strdup,
+    .freeFn = free,
 };
 
 /* Override hiredis' allocators with ones supplied by the user */
@@ -53,34 +53,34 @@ hiredisAllocFuncs hiredisSetAllocators(hiredisAllocFuncs *override) {
 /* Reset allocators to use libc defaults */
 void hiredisResetAllocators(void) {
     hiredisAllocFns = (hiredisAllocFuncs) {
-        .malloc = malloc,
-        .calloc = calloc,
-        .realloc = realloc,
-        .strdup = strdup,
-        .free = free,
+        .mallocFn = malloc,
+        .callocFn = calloc,
+        .reallocFn = realloc,
+        .strdupFn = strdup,
+        .freeFn = free,
     };
 }
 
 #ifdef _WIN32
 
 void *hi_malloc(size_t size) {
-    return hiredisAllocFns.malloc(size);
+    return hiredisAllocFns.mallocFn(size);
 }
 
 void *hi_calloc(size_t nmemb, size_t size) {
-    return hiredisAllocFns.calloc(nmemb, size);
+    return hiredisAllocFns.callocFn(nmemb, size);
 }
 
 void *hi_realloc(void *ptr, size_t size) {
-    return hiredisAllocFns.realloc(ptr, size);
+    return hiredisAllocFns.reallocFn(ptr, size);
 }
 
 char *hi_strdup(const char *str) {
-    return hiredisAllocFns.strdup(str);
+    return hiredisAllocFns.strdupFn(str);
 }
 
 void hi_free(void *ptr) {
-    hiredisAllocFns.free(ptr);
+    hiredisAllocFns.freeFn(ptr);
 }
 
 #endif
diff --git a/alloc.h b/alloc.h
index b581e56..34a05f4 100644
--- a/alloc.h
+++ b/alloc.h
@@ -39,11 +39,11 @@ extern "C" {
 
 /* Structure pointing to our actually configured allocators */
 typedef struct hiredisAllocFuncs {
-    void *(*malloc)(size_t);
-    void *(*calloc)(size_t,size_t);
-    void *(*realloc)(void*,size_t);
-    char *(*strdup)(const char*);
-    void (*free)(void*);
+    void *(*mallocFn)(size_t);
+    void *(*callocFn)(size_t,size_t);
+    void *(*reallocFn)(void*,size_t);
+    char *(*strdupFn)(const char*);
+    void (*freeFn)(void*);
 } hiredisAllocFuncs;
 
 hiredisAllocFuncs hiredisSetAllocators(hiredisAllocFuncs *ha);
@@ -55,23 +55,23 @@ void hiredisResetAllocators(void);
 extern hiredisAllocFuncs hiredisAllocFns;
 
 static inline void *hi_malloc(size_t size) {
-    return hiredisAllocFns.malloc(size);
+    return hiredisAllocFns.mallocFn(size);
 }
 
 static inline void *hi_calloc(size_t nmemb, size_t size) {
-    return hiredisAllocFns.calloc(nmemb, size);
+    return hiredisAllocFns.callocFn(nmemb, size);
 }
 
 static inline void *hi_realloc(void *ptr, size_t size) {
-    return hiredisAllocFns.realloc(ptr, size);
+    return hiredisAllocFns.reallocFn(ptr, size);
 }
 
 static inline char *hi_strdup(const char *str) {
-    return hiredisAllocFns.strdup(str);
+    return hiredisAllocFns.strdupFn(str);
 }
 
 static inline void hi_free(void *ptr) {
-    hiredisAllocFns.free(ptr);
+    hiredisAllocFns.freeFn(ptr);
 }
 
 #else
diff --git a/test.c b/test.c
index fba8eba..2aef0d5 100644
--- a/test.c
+++ b/test.c
@@ -550,10 +550,11 @@ static void *hi_realloc_fail(void *ptr, size_t size) {
 
 static void test_allocator_injection(void) {
     hiredisAllocFuncs ha = {
-        .malloc = hi_malloc_fail,
-        .calloc = hi_calloc_fail,
-        .realloc = hi_realloc_fail,
-        .free = NULL,
+        .mallocFn = hi_malloc_fail,
+        .callocFn = hi_calloc_fail,
+        .reallocFn = hi_realloc_fail,
+        .strdupFn = strdup,
+        .freeFn = free,
     };
 
     // Override hiredis allocators