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| -rw-r--r-- | extra/Configs/Config.in | 20 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/extra/Configs/Config.in b/extra/Configs/Config.in index 088a8838e..3dc60fb66 100644 --- a/extra/Configs/Config.in +++ b/extra/Configs/Config.in @@ -423,12 +423,18 @@ choice prompt "Malloc Implementation" default MALLOC if ! ARCH_USE_MMU default MALLOC_STANDARD if ARCH_USE_MMU + +config MALLOC + bool "malloc" help "malloc" use mmap for all allocations and so works very well on MMU-less systems that do not support the brk() system call. It is pretty smart about reusing already allocated memory, and minimizing memory wastage. This is the default for uClinux MMU-less systems. +config MALLOC_SIMPLE + bool "malloc-simple" + help "malloc-simple" was written from scratch for uClibc, and is the simplest possible (and therefore smallest) malloc implementation. This uses only the mmap() system call to allocation memory, and does @@ -437,6 +443,10 @@ choice certainly isn't the fastest. But it is 100% standards compliant, thread safe, and very small. +config MALLOC_STANDARD + bool "malloc-standard" + depends on ARCH_USE_MMU + help "malloc-standard" is derived from the public domain dlmalloc implementation by Doug Lea. It is quite fast, and is pretty smart about reusing already allocated memory, and minimizing memory @@ -446,16 +456,6 @@ choice If unsure, answer "malloc-standard". -config MALLOC - bool "malloc" - -config MALLOC_SIMPLE - bool "malloc-simple" - -config MALLOC_STANDARD - bool "malloc-standard" - depends on ARCH_USE_MMU - endchoice config MALLOC_GLIBC_COMPAT |