Hi Jorgen, On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Jorgen Lundman <lund...@lundman.net> wrote: > > >> Uninitialized global and static variables reside in .bss and are set >> to zero during relocation. Initialised globals and static variables go >> into .data > > > Alas, I know from experience that Microsoft's C compiler does not initialise > global variables (to make it faster one assumes) which has led to hours of > debugging.
Well actually, it's not the compiler/linker that initialised .bss - it's the dynamic loader. In the case of U-Boot, it's the Flash->RAM relocation code. > If u-boot has decided that going without Microsoft compiling support is > A-OK, then that is A-OK with me too. :) I don't know of anyone that has even tried, let alone succeeded in compiling U-Boot with a Microsoft compiler. I've heard of cygwin attempts (that from memory have also failed miserably) Generally speaking, gnu based tools are your best bet. Speaking of which, we really should have a list of 'supported tools' which are known to successfully build U-Boot... Regards, Graeme _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
