RTEMS malloc implementation question

[Joel Sherrill]

Till Straumann wrote:
> 
> Hi there.
> 
> Does anybody know why RTEMS uses its own implementation
> of malloc()/free() and not the one built into newlibc?

History.. newlib's was not thread-safe when RTEMS first
started using newlib.  It has only been in the past couple
of releases that newlib provided proper locking of the
structure.

I have sent you email privately before seeing this explaining
how to switch.  And that it wouldn't be viewed as a bad
thing -- just something that couldn't be done in the
newlib 1.6 days.  :)

> -- Till

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