avoid NULL pointer ambiguity in mn10300 sim

Jeff Johnston jjohnstn@redhat.com
Fri Jun 4 20:47:00 GMT 2004


Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jun  2, 2004, Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Should that offset be aligned (i.e. 4 or 8)?
> 
> 
> It could, but it would just increase the waste.  If any of the other
> sections needs alignment, it shall require alignment itself.
>

I don't think 3 more bytes is that much of a burden.  There may be missing 
alignment requirements and everything just works in the current model.  I prefer 
to be safe than sorry.  I'll check in the change.

Thanks,

-- Jeff J.

> 
>>Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>>
>>>GDB gets thoroughly confused if the address of the start symbol looks
>>>like a NULL pointer.  ISO C requires no other pointer to compare equal
>>>to the NULL pointer as well, so make sure we don't have any objects at
>>>address zero.
>>>Ok to install?
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>>>
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