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Re: malloc1 test and posix stdio fails
> 16 .bss 00004d4c 81200bf8 81200bf8 00028bf8 2**4
> ALLOC
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> and a dump showing __heap1
>
> 81205948 A __heap1
> 81200ac0 D cygmem_memalloc_heaps
> 812033b4 B cygmem_pool_heap1
>
> ---------------------------
>
> Hmm. If I do the arithmetic and I understand things correctly,
>
> my heap pointer __heap1 = 8120 5948
> which is 4 bytes past the end of bss = ( 8120 0bf8 + 0000 4d4c ) =
> 0x8120 5944
>
> which would seem to be incorrect. My RAM allocation (as per my linker
> file sent in previous message) ends at 8120 0000 + 20 0000 = 8140 0000
>
> Therefore I conclude __heap1 is sent incorrectly.
_heap1 is the start of the heap. It is normally directly after the bss
and goes to the top of memory. So you heap should be 0x81205948 -
0x81400000
So this looks O.K. I think the problem is somewhere else.
Andrew
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