Patch/Bugfix for BOOTP in rtems-ss-20020205

[Eric Norum]

On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at 04:11 PM, Thomas Doerfler wrote:

> Hi Till,
>
> sigh, you are right, free is overloaded...
>
> Where exactly is "free" and "malloc" hidden? Is it possible to
> make them available with a different name (like "__real_free"
> or so)?
>
>

The problem is that inside the BSD kernel malloc and free take different 
arguments.  My goal when porting the network stack to RTEMS was to make 
as few changes to the BSD code as possible to make it easier to track 
BSD changes.  That's why I used the free/malloc macro wrappers.  Perhaps 
there needs to be an rtems_bsdnet_rtems_free() and 
rtems_bsdnet_rtems_malloc() added to the bottom of the rtems_glue.c 
source file as:

#undef malloc
#undef free

void *rtems_bsdnet_rtems_malloc(size_t size)
{
	return malloc(size);
}

void rtems_bsdnet_rtems_free(void *p)
{
	free(p);
}


Then the code in question in the bootp source could call the new 
functions.
This isn't very clean, but merging code with such wide variations is not 
easy.

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Eric Norum <eric.norum at usask.ca>
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University of Saskatchewan
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