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From: Vlad Lungu <vlad@comsys.ro>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Off-by-two bug when relocating GOT
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:39:36 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47061468.5050709@comsys.ro> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4705B65A.5040206@necel.com>

Shinya Kuribayashi wrote:
> Vlad Lungu wrote:
>   
>> The first two entries are skipped but the number of relocated entries
>> is not adjusted; as a result, the first __u_boot_cmd_* structure is
>> smashed and no commands can be issued.
>>     
>
> This is a known, long stading, pretty critical, but not fixed problem. See below:
>
> http://search.gmane.org/search.php?group=gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot&query=mips+got
>
> I'm going to look closely into this.
>   
The thing I don't get is why skip the top two entries in the first place? Is it because 
_gp=ALIGN(16) ? Maybe Robert has a point:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/25533


Vlad

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-05 10:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-04 17:45 [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Off-by-two bug when relocating GOT Vlad Lungu
2007-10-05  3:58 ` Shinya Kuribayashi
2007-10-05 10:39   ` Vlad Lungu [this message]
2007-10-05 20:18     ` Thomas Lange
2007-10-05 22:31       ` Vlad Lungu
2007-10-06  0:20         ` Thomas Lange
2007-10-06 12:27           ` Vlad Lungu
2007-10-11 20:04         ` Shinya Kuribayashi
2007-10-11 22:06           ` Vlad Lungu
2007-10-12 10:20             ` Vlad Lungu
2007-10-14 15:57             ` Shinya Kuribayashi
2007-10-14 19:00               ` Vlad Lungu
2007-10-16 18:19               ` [U-Boot-Users] _gp in current u-boot.lds for MIPS ports Wolfgang Denk
2007-10-16 19:13                 ` Vlad Lungu
2007-10-16 20:15                 ` Andrew Dyer
2007-10-17 14:27                   ` Shinya Kuribayashi
2007-10-17 14:23                 ` Shinya Kuribayashi

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