On March 26, 2023 5:26:29 PM MDT, andy pugh wrote:
>It's a tempting thing to do, it keeps the data structures neat, and means
>that you don't have to free on exit, as the whole HAL memory is freed on
>exit.
Non-hal memory (eg from malloc) is also freed when the process exits (it's more
I am working on a HAL driver at the moment, and have started to be
concerned about mis-use(?) of hal_malloc.
Looking at the hostmot2 code the data structures are carefully split into
HAL pins and other data. The HAL pins parts are hal_malloc-ed and the data
parts are rtapi_kmalloc-ed (which is
