removing ancient libosmocore fork from osmocom-bb.git

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Holger Freyther holger at freyther.de
Wed May 17 15:00:06 UTC 2017


> On 17. May 2017, at 22:08, Harald Welte <laforge at gnumonks.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Vadim,
> 

Hey,


>>> * remove 'talloc emulation' from osmocom-bb and use pseudotalloc from
>>> libosmocore.git (plus an embedded 'malloc' like umm_malloc)
>> 
>> Why do we need this hack (pseudotalloc)?
> 
> Because talloc is large both in terms of runtime memory overhead (for
> each allocation) and in terms of code footprint,.

related to that. How confident are you we don't rely on the hierarchical
feature of talloc inside the libosmo* (or your more narrow list)? Maybe
we add some kind of runtime test/probe for that?

holger



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