[coreboot] global_vars

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Tue Sep 9 03:42:41 CEST 2008


On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 03:28:12AM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> On 09.09.2008 03:18, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > If I understand the code correctly, the global_vars() function is
> > trying to get at the stack variable globvars declared in stage1_main.
> >   
> 
> No, that's not what the code does. global_vars() reads the address of
> globvars from the bottom of stack where that address has been stored.
> Note the double indirection.

Okay - that makes more sense.  Thanks.

-Kevin




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