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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [RFC][PATCH] Update malloc to dlmalloc version 2.8.4
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:25:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A53AF2A.7040909@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090707202216.GJ30172@game.jcrosoft.org>

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

Right, for now we can use the existing malloc with -fno-strict-aliasing.

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-07 20:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-07 16:27 [U-Boot] [RFC][PATCH] Update malloc to dlmalloc version 2.8.4 Kumar Gala
2009-07-07 16:30 ` Kumar Gala
2009-07-07 18:34   ` Mike Frysinger
2009-07-07 19:16     ` T Ziomek
2009-07-07 19:50       ` Kumar Gala
2009-07-07 20:02         ` Scott Wood
2009-07-07 20:22           ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2009-07-07 20:25             ` Scott Wood [this message]
2009-07-07 22:24               ` Kumar Gala
2009-07-08  5:58                 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-07-08  6:22                   ` Robin Getz
2009-07-08  6:58                     ` Peter Tyser
2009-07-08 18:57                       ` Mike Frysinger
2009-07-07 20:39         ` T Ziomek
2009-07-07 20:47         ` Kim Phillips
2009-07-07 19:49     ` Kumar Gala
2009-07-08  4:37       ` Robin Getz

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