[U-Boot] Early malloc() summary

Graeme Russ
2012-08-16T23:03:04Z

Hi Marek,

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de> wrote:
> Dear Graeme Russ,
>
> [...]
>
>> >> 2) We can pass a pointer to a driver_core struct (or whatever struct it
>> >>
>> >> is that holds the 'reloc' helper function pointer). We can't pick up
>> >> misuse at compile time, but dm_malloc() can print a meaningful
>> >> message if it is called pre-relocation with no relocation function.
>> >> (We should add a flag to indicate that no relocation helper is
>> >> required which may be the case for very simple drivers)
>> >
>> > Yes, but it would prevent using dm_malloc(size_t size, driver *drv)
>> > for one-time buffers inside helper functions - strdup() for instance,
>>
>> Hmm, I hadn't thought of that
>
> So, we're back to square 1 ?

Nope - just a slight tweak is all

Regards,

Graeme