Re: [coreboot] printk and side effects

2010-04-22 Thread Myles Watson
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Myles Watson myle...@gmail.com wrote: This is a reminder to myself in case it is obvious to everyone else: It seems very difficult to guarantee that the removal/insertion of a print statement has no other effects. I printed out the location of a variable,

[coreboot] printk and side effects

2010-04-17 Thread Myles Watson
This is a reminder to myself in case it is obvious to everyone else: It seems very difficult to guarantee that the removal/insertion of a print statement has no other effects. I printed out the location of a variable, and that changed where it was stored (from a register to being placed on the

Re: [coreboot] printk and side effects

2010-04-17 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 17.04.2010, at 16:41, Myles Watson myle...@gmail.com wrote: This is a reminder to myself in case it is obvious to everyone else: It seems very difficult to guarantee that the removal/insertion of a print statement has no other effects. Thanks for sharing this kind of information. This

Re: [coreboot] printk and side effects

2010-04-17 Thread Myles Watson
This is a reminder to myself in case it is obvious to everyone else: It seems very difficult to guarantee that the removal/insertion of a print statement has no other effects. Thanks for sharing this kind of information. This is definitely not obvious and people need to be aware of it.