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

[Robin Getz]

On Wed 8 Jul 2009 01:58, Mike Frysinger pondered:
> On Tuesday 07 July 2009 18:24:56 Kumar Gala wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> there was another public domain malloc implementation Robin pointed me to 
> recently, but i cant seem to remember/find it.

It was bget

http://www.fourmilab.ch/bget/