Hi Marek, On 08/15/2012 09:56 AM, Marek Vasut wrote: > Dear Graeme Russ, > > [...] > >> >> Third path is dm_malloc() - Although ugly, it has a few nicities... > > Thinking about dm_malloc() ... if it's entirely different, the semantics can > be > adjusted too ... say to "int dm_malloc(void **ptr, size_t size);": > > - return int: error code > - **ptr: pointer to allocated memory, that way we can possibly implement > pointer > tracking (of course that'd need more work, might be a debug feature) > - size: size of allocated area
I think we should keep the semantics as close as possible to malloc(). If there is an error, return NULL. For starters, if we do later go with a common malloc() which gets wrapped, changing the code will be a lot easier. Regards, Graeme _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
