[U-Boot-Users] Changing u-boot relocation scheme

[vb]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Haavard Skinnemoen
<haavard.skinnemoen at atmel.com> wrote:
>
> IMO, it's best to avoid such pointers in the first place, especially
> ones that are statically initialized.
>
> Haavard
>

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 5:23 AM, Jerry Van Baren <gerald.vanbaren at ge.com> wrote:
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> OK, now I'm curious: what happens if you make the pf() pointer constant?
>  This will (should) change it from an initialized variable in the .data

Haavard, Jerry, your both suggestions are very right, but you are
missing an important point: I am talking about porting code to u-boot,
libraries with hundreds of files, written and working in other
environments - they can't be compiled in as is, and changing them is
prohibitively inefficient.

cheers,
/vb