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From: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.aribaud@free.fr>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] arm: wrong Relocation and not cleared BSS
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 18:01:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CCC4161.8000807@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101030143917.042051522C0@gemini.denx.de>

Le 30/10/2010 16:39, Wolfgang Denk a ?crit :
> Dear Albert ARIBAUD,
>
> In message<4CCC242C.8070303@free.fr>  you wrote:
>>
>> You mean the rule is not respected for u-boot? then you should point out
>> (or better yet, submit a patch to fix) parts of code which assume BSS is
>
> It's a requirement of a standard C execution environment. BSS must
> _always_ be cleared.

Just re-checked the C99 specs, and yes, all static scope vars must be 
initialized, so I stand corrected as for BSS initialization. I still 
think, though, that one should not count on a BSS-allocated variable to 
be zero at program start, and if one wants a variable to be zero, one 
must initialize it explicitly.

Anyway, as I said, the nand_chip[] issue is not, I believe, related to 
initializing BSS, as the writing and reading both occur after setting up 
the C environment for running from RAM.

> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-30 16:01 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 [this message]
2010-10-30 16:10           ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-30 14:37     ` Wolfgang Denk
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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