pc386 BSP and PowerPC questions.

[Charles.Gauthier at iit.nrc.ca (Charles Gauthier)]

joel at oarcorp.com wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Feb 1999 robini at icecube-consulting.com wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a question about using the pc386 BSP and RTEMS on a number of PC targets.
> >
> > Build Environment
> > -----------------
> >
> > RedHat Linux 5.2
> > RTEMS-4.0.0
> > egcs-1.1.1
> > binutils-2.9.1.0.15
> > newlib-1.8.1
> >
> > patches *-rtems-diff-19981027
> >
> > I applied the patches from RTEMS-4.0.0 release by hand, as they were for egcs-1.1b, binutils-2.9.1 and
> > newlib-1.8.0.  Most of them appeared to still be relevant.
>
> Most are still relevant for versions newer than the above.
>

I used newlib 1.8.1 with RTEMS 3.6.0. Newlib 1.8.1 has a new memory allocator written by Doug Lea. I
remember that I
had bracket the newlib-1.8.1/newlib/libc/stdlib/mallocr.c file with #ifndef MALLOC_PROVIDED/#endif in
order to use
the malloc provided with RTEMS.

> <stuff deleted>

Charles-Antoine Gauthier
Research Officer
Software Engineering Group
Institute for Information Technology
National Research Council of Canada
Ottawa, ON, Canada
K1A 0R6

P.S. Sorry joel for the personal reply. I hit the send button to quickly...