[U-Boot] [PATCH] Followup fixes on the mtdparts spread patchset

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Fri Sep 10 18:32:31 CEST 2010


On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:35:04 -0400
Ben Gardiner <bengardiner at nanometrics.ca> wrote:

> It's fine by me but I'm curious: why move the declaration of the stack
> variables i and net_size to before the check of the block_isbad
> function pointer?

U-Boot coding style prohibits mid-block declarations.

> Before this change, I think there would be no
> allocation of these variables on the stack if the block_isbad function
> pointer is null.

The change should not make any difference in the generated code.  The
compiler is not going to delay its creation of the stack frame just
because of where the variables are declared.

-Scott



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