From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour@redhat.com>
To: aacquaviva@deis.unibo.it
Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [ECOS] heap management question
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 19:59:00 -0000
Message-id: <3A7B80C3.F629B25A@redhat.com>
References: <200102012339.AAA21943@promet1.deis.unibo.it>
X-SW-Source: 2001-02/msg00038.html

"Andrea Acquaviva - DEIS-micrel (93785)" wrote:
> 
> I have a trivial question about heap management in eCos
> (I use an assabet board).
> 
> The heap area starts from the top of memory (RAM) and
> go down so its size
> matches the value configured in ecos.ecc
> (CYGNUM_LIBC_MALLOC_MEMPOOL_SIZE), right?

I take it you are referring to v1.3.1 here. In which case the heap is just
a static array defined somewhere in memory, probably not at the top.

The version in anonymous CVS is more what you would expect and allows the
heap to use all of unallocated memory.

Jifl
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