[En-Nut-Discussion] malloc versus NutHeapAlloc

[Michel]

Hi,

I was wandering why sometimes I see 'malloc()' and 'free()' being used
instead of 'NutHeapAlloc()' and 'NutHeapFree()'?

In e.g. chat.c and dhcp.c (from CVS) malloc and free are used.

Why is this? Does it have any (dis)advantages? I assumed that Nut/OS
automatically allocates all available memory to a heap pool so malloc
shouldn't be able to allocate any memory, right?

Greets,

Michel