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Extra bytes in heapSTRUCT_SIZE?

Posted by Tom Daugherty on October 9, 2012
Using v7.2.0, it looks like there are an extra 8 bytes added for every pvPortMalloc call due to the computation of heapSTRUCT_SIZE. This is true for heap_2 and heap_4. Currently,

static const unsigned short heapSTRUCT_SIZE= ( sizeof( xBlockLink ) + portBYTE_ALIGNMENT - ( sizeof( xBlockLink ) % portBYTE_ALIGNMENT ) );

and in my case of a Cortex-M4 and a Keil compiler, portBYTE_ALIGNMENT is 8, and sizeof(xBlockLink) is 8. This line of code results in a heapSTRUCT_SIZE of 16 when the actual structure size is already on an 8 byte boundary. Would it be better to do something like,

static const unsigned short heapSTRUCT_SIZE = (sizeof(xBlockLink) & portBYTE_ALIGNMENT_MASK)?
(sizeof(xBlockLink) + (portBYTE_ALIGNMENT - (sizeof(xBlockLink) & portBYTE_ALIGNMENT_MASK))):
(sizeof(xBlockLink));


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