[Tinyos-help] Question about SDRAM and malloc

2009-11-10 Thread David Rodenas Herráiz
Hi Sorry, I did not make my question well. I'm using SDRAM memory on Imote2 and I want to ask something: If we define a variable like this unsigned int *variable __attribute__((section(.sdram))); and if I make the following, #define SIZE 33023 variable = (unsigned int*)malloc(SIZE);

[Tinyos-help] Question about SDRAM and malloc

2009-11-10 Thread David Rodenas Herráiz
Hi I'm using SDRAM memory on Imote2 and I want to ask something: If we define a variable like this unsigned int *variable __attribute__((section(.sdram))); and if I make the following, variable = (unsigned int*)malloc(sizeof(unsigned int)); Where is that memory stored? in the SRAM or

Re: [Tinyos-help] Question about SDRAM and malloc

2009-11-10 Thread Oewyn
I'm not intimately familiar with the pxa27x architecture, but in general, when you call malloc(), you have no control over where the memory is allocated from. The memory should be automatically allocated in either the local SRAM or SDRAM (depending on how the memory controller operates).