[U-Boot] EABI 4.2

[Joakim Tjernlund]

>
> Andrew Dyer wrote on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 4:50 PM:
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>
> Hm, on the wikipedia article for the 'variable length arrays' (VLA) I
> read, that the GNU C compiler always uses the stack for this type of
> variables. So I think, if the stack is working for all other local
> variables, it should not be an memory layout problem.
>
> Eventually the following might be interesting. I have tried to make the
> VLA much bigger, to eliminate 'normal' buffer overrun problems:
>
> char filename[dirent.namelen + 1 + 2048]
>
> But this leads to the same result, U-Boot dies. With an fixed length
> array of comparable length it works:
>
> char filename[2048]
>
> Both (local) variables should end up on the stack.

Try alloca to see if stack allocs works at all in your toolchain.

      Jocke