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Re: "new" heap allocation for synthetic target doesn't work for me


On Wednesday 11 July 2007 09:02, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 08:55:00AM -0400, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > the "new" (ok, already 1 1/2 years old) way to allocate the memory for
> > the heap doesn't work for me (kubuntu 6.10, gcc 4.1.2), i.e. malloc()
> > fails with a SIGSEGV in dlmalloc.cxx, line 1282. Reverting this change:
> > http://ecos.sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ecos/packages/hal/synth/arc
> >h/current/src/synth_entry.c.diff?r1=1.6&r2=1.7&cvsroot=ecos&f=h
> >
> > makes it work again.
>
> Do we know what makes the difference. Is it gcc, binutils, kernel?

I don't know.

> We need some way to decide at runtime if we need to brk() memory or
> not.

At least the values reported by mallinfo() were ok in both cases.

Alex

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