This becomes important with gcc-4.9. Without this gcc assumes that accessing NULL pointers traps and everything that happens behind the access is not executed. This recently happened with i.MX53 which has: static int imx53_silicon_revision(void) { void __iomem *rom = MX53_IROM_BASE_ADDR; rev = readl(rom + SI_REV); ... } This resulted in object code in which the last instruction is the readl, the reset of the function is missing because gcc assumes this is never executed. Disable this optimization with -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks since in barebox NULL pointers can indeed be valid. Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Makefile | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index e7db67a..0fe9274 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -301,7 +301,8 @@ CPPFLAGS := -D__KERNEL__ -D__BAREBOX__ $(LINUXINCLUDE) -fno-builtin -ffre CFLAGS := -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs \ -Werror-implicit-function-declaration \ - -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Os -pipe + -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Os -pipe \ + -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks AFLAGS := -D__ASSEMBLY__ LDFLAGS_barebox := -Map barebox.map -- 2.1.4 _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox