replacement of talloc

[ronnie sahlberg]

You can not substitute malloc() with memset()
they serve completely different purposes.


On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 8:17 PM, akib sayyed <mailing.akib at gmail.com> wrote:
> didnt get you
> here is talloc code that has been use.
> i can use memset like this memset(atr,0,sizeof(atr)); in firmware
> so in above code if i replace complete malloc with memset will it work??
>
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Alexander Bokovoy <ab at samba.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 7:48 PM, akib sayyed <mailing.akib at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > i am compiling using gnutoolchain  to compile my code. and error is not
>> > while compiling its while linking
>> So it has missing symbols, most likely in form of malloc and free.
>>
>> Your setup is basically a single statically linked program. You would
>> need to implement memory management on your own. This is actually
>> easier to be done with talloc as you can simply use a single talloc
>> pool internally that hands out memory out of a single raw memory
>> chunk. Since talloc already hides malloc use from the original program
>> you would need to rewrite few places within talloc where memory is
>> allocated.
>>
>> > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Alexander Bokovoy <ab at samba.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 7:21 PM, akib sayyed <mailing.akib at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > yes it does run calypso but only some part is ran on actual calypso
>> and
>> >> > actual main part in ran on pc
>> >> > in other words layer 1 is ran on calypso and l2 l3 are on host pc.
>> >> > i want to port l2 l3 on calypso
>> >> I don't think you'll get any success in 256KiB of memory there. But good
>> >> luck.
>> >> Is there any specific error when compiling talloc?
>>
>>
>> --
>> / Alexander Bokovoy
>>