make calloc "usable" early on

closes #741

Old versions of the gnu libc uses calloc to allocate dymanic memory
when some error occurs in dlsym.
This results in a segfault as natives calloc wrapper has not been
initialized yet.
As this is a circular dependency and the libc can cope with this, we
just return NULL from the calloc wrapper and hope for the best.

Recent libc versions use a static buffer instead.