6 Oct
2013
6 Oct
'13
10:40 p.m.
On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 10:00:13PM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
Dear Tom Rini,
In message 1380227287-26057-3-git-send-email-trini@ti.com you wrote:
Switch the case of non-redundant non-embedded environment to use malloc to allocate buffers, rather than place them on the stack, like the redundant case does.
What exactly would be the benefit of this change? It just adds code size and execution time and makes the code more complex, without any appearent advanteages?
The main advantage is that we can use this code in environments with less than CONFIG_ENV_SIZE worth of stack available. Arguably it makes the behaviour and code paths similar for redundant and non-redundant cases (but someone posted a patch to make the redundant case use the stack).
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Tom