From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Frysinger Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 01:58:27 -0400 Subject: [U-Boot] [RFC][PATCH] Update malloc to dlmalloc version 2.8.4 In-Reply-To: References: <1246984027-8136-1-git-send-email-galak@kernel.crashing.org> <4A53AF2A.7040909@freescale.com> Message-ID: <200907080158.28895.vapier@gentoo.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/attachments/20090708/f4017ac2/attachment.pgp