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:
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>>Should that offset be aligned (i.e. 4 or 8)?
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> It could, but it would just increase the waste. If any of the other
> sections needs alignment, it shall require alignment itself.
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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.
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>>Alexandre Oliva wrote:
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>>>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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