Dear Detlev Zundel,
In message <m2r5wfzh0l....@ohwell.denx.de> you wrote:
>
> I also think that making our lifes easier is a very good thing. Our
> "it's only a bootloader" codebase is pretty complex already so I welcome
> making it more robust. I was kind of surprised the other day that
> null-pointer jumps(*) did not result in immediate "bad programmer, no
> cookie this time" messages but in random crashes.
Well, what do you suggest? remember for example that booting a Linux
kernel means jumping to it's entry point address - which happens to
be 0 - or is this NULL ? How do you detemine the difference?
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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