malloc always returns null

[Andrew Haley]

Ted Phares wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm attempting to configure the gcc 4.0.3 tool chain to compile c++
> source on an ARM 9 (ARM926-ejs) target.  At this point, everything seems
> to be working except malloc:  It always returns the null pointer.
> 
> I'm wondering if I've correctly configured my .ld script indicate the
> location and size of the heap.  It was put together with a bit of
> guesswork & patching together examples for other targets, since it's not
> clear to me what symbols malloc() relies upon for locating the heap (is
> this documented somewhere?).
> 
> Below are the command lines i'm using for compile/assemble/link & the ld
> script.  Do they look substantially complete?

Questions like this really need the expertise of the binutils list.

Andrew.