newlib malloc/memalign

[Joel Sherrill]

Chuck Tuffli wrote:

> I saw a posting* in March that talks about switching from using RTEM's
> malloc to the one in newlib. I'm interested in using the memalign
> function and was wondering what would I need to do to implement this
> support.
> 
> * http://www.rtems.com/rtems/maillistArchives/rtems-users/2003/march/msg00050.html

The first step would be to disable the malloc code in RTEMS,
provide the malloc mutex used by newlib (see the gxx_thread_wrappers
in RTEMS), and arrange for newlib to use the memory formerly
given to our own malloc.

> --
> Chuck Tuffli
> Agilent Technologies


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