Quotient Remainder wrote: > Out of interest, how did something like this get away with only causing > an occasional failure?
Well, there are some explanations. MMU is normally off and a Null Pointer does not cause an exception in u-boot. If we get a failure, it depends on the architecture we are using. On PowerPC, address 0 is accessible and then we get no failure. In this particular case (ubifsmount), the list is set but not used by the calling function. Because writing to address 0 is allowed, the bug is not noticeable. Different is on arm, where I have found the problem. Because in this case address 0 is not accessible at all, u-boot hangs and it is not possible to avoid to see that we have a problem.... Best regards, Stefano Babic -- ===================================================================== DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: +49-8142-66989-0 Fax: +49-8142-66989-80 Email: off...@denx.de ===================================================================== _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
