Re: [coreboot] unexpected exception errors loading vga rom

[Joseph Smith]

On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:54:08 +0200, Stefan Reinauer <ste...@coresystems.de>
wrote:
> On 22.04.2009 22:50 Uhr, ron minnich wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Joseph Smith <j...@settoplinux.org>
> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> This really sounds like an unitialized variable or a bad pointer.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Wouldn't gcc catch these and error when building?
>>>
>>
>>
>> not always. that's what sparse can be useful for.
>>
>> ron
>>
>>
> 
> BTW: I did a new scanbuild run today:
> http://www.coresystems.de/~stepan/coreboot-scanbuild/
> 
> Patches and bug fixes are welcome.
> 
> If anyone succeeds to get sparse running with coreboot, i'll give it a
> try, too. It didn't work all too well when i tried.
> 
Wow looks like there are alot of bugs in romcc.c !

-- 
Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
www.settoplinux.org


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