On 20.08.2008 19:01, Segher Boessenkool wrote: >> - Segher needs to review which attributes globvars needs to not be >> optimized away. > > It doesn't need any: if it's used, it won't be optimised away; > and if it isn't used, who cares :-) > > There could be an issue if you hid some facts from the compiler, > but you didn't.
Thanks for checking this. > The only remaining issue is, does that struct actually get > allocated on the stack (and not in .data or similar)? There is > no way to force this AFAIK: C doesn't even know what a stack is, > and there is no GCC extension for this. But don't worry too > much about this, every compiler we use does in fact put this on > the stack. I'm not too worried about that either. My v3 code correctness checker complains if stage1 or initram use .bss or .data. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ -- coreboot mailing list [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
