Subj : Re: where can I find a malloc for standalone programs ?
To   : comp.programming
From : Scott Moore
Date : Fri Aug 19 2005 04:44 pm

DEMAINE Benoit-Pierre wrote:
> I am writing a program for standalone use; the circuit in configured with some
> bootstrap, then my code is called.
> 
> There is no Linux, nor filesyem, nor libraries around.
> 
> my code is statically compiled and linked with gcc.
> 
> problem occurs about malloc: since there is no kernel, nor system, nor stdlib, there
> is no malloc defined. I can not either link my application against a stdlib stolen
> to any system, since I have no kernel, and that stdlib would not know the addresses
> of memory pages available.
> 
> Thus, I need a new malloc that is initialised by a special initialisation call, with
> begin and end adresses of memory space, and implements malloc() and free(), and is
> aware of endianness, bus width, alignment problems ...

A Malloc is presented as an example in the whitebook ! Page 185, section 8.7 of the
second edition.

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