RE: [avr-libc-dev] Malloc implementation in avr

[Boyapati, Anitha]

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> Behalf Of Joerg Wunsch
> Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 6:14 PM
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> Subject: Re: [avr-libc-dev] Malloc implementation in avr
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> As Boyapati, Anitha wrote:

> 
> > Or he may want to
> > write his own free().
> 
> He is not allowed to do this (the C standards explicitly forbids that
> an application overrides a library implementation), and this would not
> work in almost /any/ C environment, because the way free() must be
> implemented is completely tied to the implementation of malloc()
> itself.


This sure explains the rationale. Thanks for the details.


Regards
Anitha