From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] arm: wrong Relocation and not cleared BSS
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 16:37:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101030143719.BAD25FA@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CCC218E.706@ahsoftware.de>
Dear Alexander Holler,
In message <4CCC218E.706@ahsoftware.de> you wrote:
>
> > Wait a minute. No parts of the code assume BSS is *cleared*, or at least
> > no pat of the should *should ever* assume that. BSS is not "zeroed
> > data", it is "uninitialized data".
>
> Thats true for normal C, but I assume that is not true for u-boot.
It is true for U-Boot, too. After relocation, we provide a standard C
execution environment, which includes a zeroes BSS.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-30 14:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-30 13:08 [U-Boot] arm: wrong Relocation and not cleared BSS Alexander Holler
2010-10-30 13:36 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-10-30 13:45 ` Alexander Holler
2010-10-30 13:57 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-10-30 14:07 ` Alexander Holler
2010-10-30 14:39 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-30 16:01 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-10-30 16:10 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-30 14:37 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2010-10-30 14:36 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-31 10:59 ` Alexander Holler
2010-10-31 11:58 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-31 12:21 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-10-31 16:18 ` Alexander Holler
2010-10-30 15:00 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-30 17:21 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-10-30 18:01 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-31 7:44 ` Heiko Schocher
2010-10-30 15:15 ` Darius Augulis
2010-10-30 16:44 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-10-30 20:03 ` Alexander Holler
2010-10-30 20:51 ` Alexander Holler
2010-10-31 7:47 ` Heiko Schocher
2010-11-02 5:39 ` V, Aneesh
2010-11-02 5:58 ` V, Aneesh
2010-11-02 6:32 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-11-02 7:18 ` V, Aneesh
2010-11-02 7:37 ` [U-Boot] Bad page state in process 'swapper' sywang
2010-11-02 7:44 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-11-02 8:13 ` sywang
2010-11-02 8:44 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-11-02 8:40 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-11-03 2:29 ` sywang
2010-11-02 7:41 ` [U-Boot] arm: wrong Relocation and not cleared BSS Albert ARIBAUD
2010-11-02 8:53 ` V, Aneesh
2010-11-02 9:04 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-10-31 7:43 ` Heiko Schocher
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