[U-Boot] [RFC][PATCH] Update malloc to dlmalloc version 2.8.4

[Kumar Gala]

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?

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

I'm all for doing this.

- k