From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 16:37:19 +0200
Subject: [U-Boot] arm: wrong Relocation and not cleared BSS
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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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