[U-Boot] [RFC][PATCH] Update malloc to dlmalloc version 2.8.4

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Tuesday 07 July 2009 18:24:56 Kumar Gala wrote:
> On Jul 7, 2009, at 3:25 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> > Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> >> On 15:02 Tue 07 Jul     , Scott Wood wrote:
> >>> Kumar Gala wrote:
> >>>> Those would help if the data structs had gotten bigger.  In this
> >>>> case  the code itself is just larger.
> >>>
> >>> Perhaps we should look into using/writing a malloc implementation
> >>> that takes a space/speed tradeoff more in line with U-boot's
> >>> requirements (using a simple first-fit linear scan of free blocks,
> >>> for example) -- and hopefully more readable than dlmalloc?
> >>>
> >>> I nominate those with the tightest space requirements to do
> >>> this. :-)
> >>
> >> I agree it's sound a better plan
> >> but I'll take a lot's of time
>
> Do we think there is some other project that we can acquire one from?

there was another public domain malloc implementation Robin pointed me to 
recently, but i cant seem to remember/find it.
-mike
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