[U-Boot-Users] How is av_[] referenced after relocation?

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709191703480.3390 at localhost.localdomain> you wrote:
>
> I'm working on booting my little toy board based on mpc8248 with
> u-boot. When debugging the startup code, I found that
> u-boot-1.1.6/common/dlmalloc.c::av_[] is relocated during calling to

Why are you using such ancient code?

> relocate_code. The question is, how can the code after the
> relocation, says malloc_bin_reloc, reference av_[]?

Just as it was before. Kust thatthe addresses are now relocated.

> I suppose that av_[] is "static" and the symbol will be stripped
> when u-boot.bin is generated.

Don't suppose things. Verify them.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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