Re: [avr-gcc-list] Re: [avr-libc-dev] Please have a look at avr-libc patch #3750

[Joerg Wunsch]

As Bernard Fouché wrote:

(about [not] malloc()ing the FP conversion buffer)

> >Of course, if there's consensus among the users that this is not
> >needed, and an additional 40 bytes on the stack are no big deal for
> >the floating-point versions, we could easily drop that completely, and
> >always allocate the buffer on the stack.

> Looking at malloc compiled code, it seems that malloc.c needs 6
> bytes of .data (reported by avr-size) and will use also 2 bytes on
> the stack when called (two registers pushed). So the net loss is
> only 32 bytes when the floating point buffer is allocated from the
> stack. ...

> I would drop the call 
> to malloc/free.

OK.

> >I agree there'd better be macros for this, but how to name them?
> >
> >#define _FDEV_ERR (-1)
> >#define _FDEV_EOF (-2)
> >
> >Sounds OK?

> Since they start with '_', no problem

> >...  But you're right, the initializer macro
> >you've been been proposing also has some merit, so I'll add that one,
> >too.

> its main merit is to save flash space if there is __do_copy_data().

Sure.  I added FDEV_SETUP_STREAM().

> I like all these changes, now what about the other users?

I've update the doc preview

http://www.sax.de/~joerg/avr-libc-user-manual/

twidemo has now also been changed to use the new stdio interface.  I
also ran some basic test cases that prove this is all working.

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