[U-Boot] arm: wrong Relocation and not cleared BSS

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Albert ARIBAUD,

In message <4CCC4161.8000807 at free.fr> you wrote:
>
> Just re-checked the C99 specs, and yes, all static scope vars must be 
> initialized, so I stand corrected as for BSS initialization. I still 
> think, though, that one should not count on a BSS-allocated variable to 
> be zero at program start, and if one wants a variable to be zero, one 
> must initialize it explicitly.

The C standard guarantees that.  And U-Boot guarantees that, after
relocation, we have a standard C execution environment, i. e. a zeroed
BSS.

> Anyway, as I said, the nand_chip[] issue is not, I believe, related to 
> initializing BSS, as the writing and reading both occur after setting up 
> the C environment for running from RAM.

Agreed.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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