Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Wed, 8 Apr 2015 10:54:58 -0500

On 04/08/2015 07:44 AM, Ralph Lange wrote:
> On 08/04/2015 14:13, Michael Davidsaver wrote:
>> On 04/08/2015 08:02 AM, Ralph Lange wrote:
>>> ...
>>> So - what to do with 3.15?
>>> (I'm afraid waiting for 3.16 is not short-term enough.)
>>>
>>> I would opt for the simple version: make the buffer statically length
>>> 256.
>> Or malloc() for a temporary buffer when the static buffer is too short?
> 
> I'd rather waste 180 bytes on the stack (no performance impact) than
> doing a malloc()/free() for every long INP/OUT instance on the IOC.

Agreed, just wind the stack buffer length up to 256 for now.

- Andrew

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System