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13 years ago

Malloc till it fails, crashes, bug in Malloc?

I'm trying to write some code that will determin how much "free" memory the system still has. I created some somewhat speedy code, but really the simple code could just run a loop like this: ...
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12 years ago

I have defined linker script for my code.

When I call malloc() NIOS returns me a address from some other region instead of .heap region.

Please let me know how can I allocate memory to pointers from the heap as defined in the GUI of BSP Editor. As in theory malloc() gives memory from heap.