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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
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
Stefan Roese
3048bcbf0b ppc4xx: Rename 405gp_pci to 4xx_pci since its used on all 4xx platforms
These files were introduced with the IBM 405GP but are currently used on all
4xx PPC platforms. So the name doesn't match the content anymore. This patch
renames the files to 4xx_pci.c/h.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
2007-10-31 21:20:49 +01:00
Jon Loeliger
b9307262f8 board/[d-e]*: Remove obsolete references to CONFIG_COMMANDS
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
2007-07-09 18:48:04 -05:00
Jon Loeliger
5e378003d5 board/[Ma-i]*: Augment CONFIG_COMMANDS tests with defined(CONFIG_CMD_*).
This is a compatibility step that allows both the older form
and the new form to co-exist for a while until the older can
be removed entirely.

All transformations are of the form:
Before:
    #if (CONFIG_COMMANDS & CFG_CMD_AUTOSCRIPT)
After:
    #if (CONFIG_COMMANDS & CFG_CMD_AUTOSCRIPT) || defined(CONFIG_CMD_AUTOSCRIPT)

Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
2007-07-04 00:34:58 +02:00
Wolfgang Denk
9ea4b5886a More cleanup: get rid or redundand #defines 2005-09-23 13:12:15 +02:00
Wolfgang Denk
0c8721a466 Cleanup (PPC4xx is AMCC now) 2005-09-23 11:05:55 +02:00
stroese
b762b9f4fc - BSP command added. 2003-07-11 08:14:14 +00:00