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Re: legOS - Does it work for you?
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Thu, 31 Dec 1998 16:30:40 GMT
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lego-robotics@crynwr.com (Ben Laurie) writes:
Rick Kimball wrote:
It might be worth picking up the standard malloc/free and seeing if they
work any better.

Ben you were right!  I replace the malloc/free routines with
a very simple array based allocation scheme and everything
works great.  I guess the other malloc I grabbed off the net
wasn't any good either.

Thanks!



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  Re: legOS - Does it work for you?
 
(...) Not necessarily - it may be that the replacement happens to put things were some memory corruption doesn't hit them... Cheers, Ben. (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: legOS - Does it work for you?
 
(...) You may still have a stack overflow issue, since if your malloc replacement doesn't maintain pointer chains you may not notice if memory gets trashed. John A. Tamplin Traveller Information Services jat@Traveller.COM 2104 West Ferry Way (...) (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)

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(...) Hmmm ... not so sure if the task manager is responsible - I have a related (I think) problem if I use static variables - programs that work fine with global variables just lock solid when they are static. Since making them static merely moves (...) (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)

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