RE: [avr-gcc-list] reentrant interrupt service routine

[Weddington, Eric]

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> From: Bernard Fouché [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 9:44 AM
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> Cc: Weddington, Eric; address@hidden; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [avr-gcc-list] reentrant interrupt service routine
> 
> Malloc() and friends are not reentrant, they use globals to 
> handle the 
> freelist. To share that list, you would need a locking mechanism and 
> such a mechanism is usually OS specific and could not be provided by 
> avr-libc (IMHO). So in some cases it will be difficult to 
> provide more 
> than documentation

I agree. But at least documentation is more than what we have at the moment. 
Even if we cannot do anything in avr-libc about it, but there is a list of what 
is not re-entrant, then OS writers and users can take this under consideration.

And thanks for pointing out malloc() and friends.