CCS 5.1, compiler 7.3.1, wants to add a sysmem section but there's no malloc/calloc/realloc

Hi

We're migrating from CCS4, compiler 6.x.x, to CCS 5.1, compiler 7.3.1. In CCS4, the project did not have a .sysmem section as we explicity avoid the use of malloc etc, favouring instead MEM_alloc to allow better control over memory allocation.

The same project migrated to CCS5, on a clean build, the linker will complain there is no .sysmem section and so it creates one by itself.

An obivous workaround is to simply create the section, but the question is rather why I need to do this in the first place? Is this a known issue in 7.3.1 (creating sections even though nothing has referenced the malloc set of functions)?

Thanks all

Richard

Added: the warning codes:

#10210-D creating ".sysmem" section with default size of 0x400; use
#10247-D creating output section ".sysmem" without a SECTIONS

and the target device is a TMS320C6472