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Author SHA1 Message Date
Wolfgang Denk
54841ab50c Make sure that argv[] argument pointers are not modified.
The hush shell dynamically allocates (and re-allocates) memory for the
argument strings in the "char *argv[]" argument vector passed to
commands.  Any code that modifies these pointers will cause serious
corruption of the malloc data structures and crash U-Boot, so make
sure the compiler can check that no such modifications are being done
by changing the code into "char * const argv[]".

This modification is the result of debugging a strange crash caused
after adding a new command, which used the following argument
processing code which has been working perfectly fine in all Unix
systems since version 6 - but not so in U-Boot:

int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
	while (--argc > 0 && **++argv == '-') {
/* ====> */	while (*++*argv) {
			switch (**argv) {
			case 'd':
				debug++;
				break;
			...
			default:
				usage ();
			}
		}
	}
	...
}

The line marked "====>" will corrupt the malloc data structures and
usually cause U-Boot to crash when the next command gets executed by
the shell.  With the modification, the compiler will prevent this with
an
	error: increment of read-only location '*argv'

N.B.: The code above can be trivially rewritten like this:

	while (--argc > 0 && **++argv == '-') {
		char *arg = *argv;
		while (*++arg) {
			switch (*arg) {
			...

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2010-07-04 23:55:42 +02:00
Wolfgang Denk
a89c33db96 General help message cleanup
Many of the help messages were not really helpful; for example, many
commands that take no arguments would not print a correct synopsis
line, but "No additional help available." which is not exactly wrong,
but not helpful either.

Commit ``Make "usage" messages more helpful.'' changed this
partially. But it also became clear that lots of "Usage" and "Help"
messages (fields "usage" and "help" in struct cmd_tbl_s respective)
were actually redundant.

This patch cleans this up - for example:

Before:
	=> help dtt
	dtt - Digital Thermometer and Thermostat

	Usage:
	dtt         - Read temperature from digital thermometer and thermostat.

After:
	=> help dtt
	dtt - Read temperature from Digital Thermometer and Thermostat

	Usage:
	dtt

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
2009-06-12 20:47:16 +02:00
Matthias Fuchs
c1b2f79788 esd/common: extend cpld command with address parameter
This patch adds support for an address parameter to esd's
cpld command. This is in preparation to remove compiled-in
binary cpld (xsvf) bitstreams.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Fuchs <matthias.fuchs@esd.eu>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
2009-06-12 20:39:46 +02:00
Matthias Fuchs
bb57ad4be7 ppc4xx: Use correct io accessors for esd 405/440 boards
This patch replaces in/out8/16/32 macros by in/out_8/_be16/_be32
macros. Also volatile pointer references are replaced by the
new accessors.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Fuchs <matthias.fuchs@esd.eu>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
2009-03-20 22:39:14 +01:00
Peter Tyser
2fb2604d5c Command usage cleanup
Remove command name from all command "usage" fields and update
common/command.c to display "name - usage" instead of
just "usage". Also remove newlines from command usage fields.

Signed-off-by: Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com>
2009-01-28 08:49:52 +01:00
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
6d0f6bcf33 rename CFG_ macros to CONFIG_SYS
Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
2008-10-18 21:54:03 +02:00
wdenk
42d1f0394b * Patches by Xianghua Xiao, 15 Oct 2003:
- Added Motorola CPU 8540/8560 support (cpu/85xx)
  - Added Motorola MPC8540ADS board support (board/mpc8540ads)
  - Added Motorola MPC8560ADS board support (board/mpc8560ads)

* Minor code cleanup
2003-10-15 23:53:47 +00:00
stroese
9a2dd74032 Xilinx jtag tool added. 2003-09-12 08:42:58 +00:00