On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Thomas Kindler <mail+...@t-kindler.de> wrote: > Carsten Breuer wrote: >>>> The first thing i had to learn was, that it is verry uncommon in >>>> OpenOCD to check the result of malloc. > >>> >>> This is a known problem where we gladly accept patches to fix each >>> case. >> >> OK, then i will start to fix all the mallocs >> that are handled not correct yet and where >> i understand what to do if they fail. > > On a normal, modern operating system, (reasonably sized) mallocs should > never fail, as the system will start thrashing and killing off processes > long before malloc() fails. > > (This will be a different story for the Zy1000, of course..)
The zy1000 has "infinite" ram w.r.t. small allocations(32 or 64mBytes depending on revision), so not checking small allocations is *highly unlikely * to cause problems for any embedded host with oodles of ram(megabytes). -- Øyvind Harboe US toll free 1-866-980-3434 / International +47 51 63 25 00 http://www.zylin.com/zy1000.html ARM7 ARM9 ARM11 XScale Cortex JTAG debugger and flash programmer _______________________________________________ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
