[ECOS] eCos Code at address 0x000? (MPC8270)

[Gary Thomas]

On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 11:44, Tim Sohacki wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> On the MPC8270, it appears that eCos has some code running at (or near)
> address 0. I suspect this is eCos specific because the first PPC
> interrupt vector stub is at 0x100.  
>  
> What is this code?  It appears to be executed at runtime, because if it
> is trampled, the target will crash. Is it a NULL pointer write detector?

It's just a place holder - in this case, your code will just hang there
if you did a jump (or function call) to 0x0.

What do you mean "trampled" and how does the problem show up?  That code
should never be executed - if it does, your program would just stop.

-- 
Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
MLB Associates


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