[okl4-developer] Iguana and BSS

[Christian SCHWARZ]

Hi Geoffrey,

isn't this only true for applications installed into memory by the 
bootloader ie known at compile time.
Anything "later", especially applications loaded during runtime from NV 
memory or via the internet, will have to be handled by the application 
installer, ie Iguana or a dedicated app.
In this case either the ELF library or (better?) the C library should 
take care of this at initialization.

Did I miss something?

//Christian

Geoffrey Lee wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 03:26:15PM +0200, Guillaume PETITJEAN wrote:
>> Is iguana zeroing the .bss section of the applications on top of it ?
> 
> Hi Guillaume
> 
> No, the Iguana program does not zero the bss.  The ELF bootloader
> should do this.  Some broken bootloaders can't handle this properly.  In
> this case specify zero_bss = True which modifies the ELF file
> that should force the bss to be zero'ed when the binary is loaded.
> 
> 	-gl
> 
> 
>> Guillaume
>>
>>
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