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Re: Re: save heap contents

From: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn dot ch>
To: R S <rusingh at ecs dot umass dot edu>
Cc: ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:59:44 +0100
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Re: save heap contents
References: <twig.1133336540.48406@ecs.umass.edu> <twig.1133340581.41437@ecs.umass.edu>

On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 08:49:41AM -0000, R S wrote:
> To add to my previous question, one way of doing it is using sbrk(0) to locate
> current heap pointer at any time and use it to copy the heap contents ,
> however as memory is sbrked only once in eCos (dlmalloc impl), this is not
> possible. So I am looking at alternate ways to accomplish the heap copy(that
> is currently in use).

You are looking at synth. Only synth uses sbrk() since it is hosted on
top of virtual memory, not real memory. For real targets this will not
work.

        Andrew

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