[coreboot] [PATCH] v3: introduce generic global variable storage

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Sun Aug 10 14:33:13 CEST 2008


Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>> Hmm. we just recreated malloc.
>>   
>>     
>
> You're free to use malloc in stage2 and beyond, but please keep that
> complexity out of stage1. malloc becomes ugly really fast if it can fail
> easily due to size constraints.
>   
malloc was removed from v3 for good reasons. Do not put it back.

Stefan

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