[En-Nut-Discussion] Floating Point Memory Usage

[Bob Wirka]

Uwe,

It's an AT91SAM7X512 with software floating point.

Right on the Ethernet website (which I should have read), regarding floating point, it states that 16K is allocated on the first call to _sbrk(). This is exactly what was happening; _dtoa_r() in putf() was calling _sbrk(), allocating the memory.

I've since written my own d2a() function that doesn't allocate memory. It **seems** to work.

Thanks,

Bob Wirka
Realtime Control Works





On Wednesday, October 9, 2013 4:44 AM, "bon at elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de" <bon at elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:
 
>>>>> "Bob" == Bob Wirka <bobwirka at yahoo.com> writes:

    Bob> Hello, Realized today that floating point eats an automatic 16K of
    Bob> ram on the first call to _sbrk(). I should read the manuals...

    Bob> It looks like setting LIB_HEAPSIZE to 4K will work (at first,
    Bob> anyway), but am I setting myself up for other problems?

    Bob> Without the default 16K, is 'newlib' likely to misbehave somewhere
    Bob> else?

With what processor are you working? What kind of floating point support,
hardware or software? If hardware, what float support did you compile for?

Bye
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