[U-Boot] Early malloc() summary

Marek Vasut
2012-08-16T23:32:38Z

Dear Graeme Russ,

> 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

What tweak ?

> Regards,
>
> Graeme

Best regards,
Marek Vasut