Re: Do you use serialization formats for communication?

From	Vincent vB <embedded@spam.com>
Newsgroups	comp.arch.embedded
Subject	Re: Do you use serialization formats for communication?
Date	2016-11-29 15:54 +0100
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On 11-11-2016 at 13:25, Chris wrote:
> On 11/11/16 08:37, Vincent vB wrote:
>
>>
>> We don't use dynamic memory with nanopb. However, we do have some
>> 'scratch space', which is used as a sort of stack for unknown length
>> data, but it is cleared after each time the data is send.
>>
>> Vincent
>
> Hi,
>
> If you know that you will never need more than a certain buffer
> size, then it can be statically allocated at startup. Where that
> isn't known for sure, include instrumentation to check for a
> high water mark, then run the code worst case in a test harness
> to find out what it's actually using.
>
> Chris

Hi Chris,

We know exactly how much data is written at most. The scratch space is 
dimensioned for this case. Otherwise you'd need to test it.

Vincent

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