[U-Boot] [PATCH] Align end of bss by 4 bytes,

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Tue Oct 14 22:58:48 CEST 2008


Dear Selvamuthukumar,

In message <b1f9ff350810062049k41ef1a0h3d87989d47385c5f at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> bss initialization loop increments 4 bytes at a time.
> And the loop end is checked for an 'equal' condition.
> Make the bss end address aligned by 4, so that the loop
> will end as expected.

I think this is a problem that may hit probably all architectures &
all boards.

Should we not perform this change globally, i.  e.  to  *all*  linker
scripts?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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