[U-Boot] use of global static variables?

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Peter Tyser,

In message <1274450989.18152.273.camel at petert> you wrote:
> 
> > With the relocation changes are global statics variables ok if we know code is called after relocation?
> 
> Yes, they should work as expected after relocation.
> 
> Prior to relocation you should be able to read the values of the global
> statics if they are initialized to a non-zero value, but not modify
> them.

Correct. And in some places we enable these even for zero valued
variables by using the old trick of writing

	int foo __attribute__ ((section(".data"))) = 0;

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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