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Altera_Forum
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20 years ago

malloc size limit

Hi, on my board I've more than 8000 KB of free RAM. From my application I try to malloc a big buffer in RAM, ~5000KB, but I see that the malloc function don't give me this memory spac...
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20 years ago

There is no MMU support here.

Even you have a lot free memory, they may be fragmented.

You should allocate in smaller chunks, and make a list of them.