Attention is currently required from: Nico Huber, Edward O'Callaghan, Martin Roth.
Edward O'Callaghan uploaded patch set #2 to this change.
programmer: Use correct type for flashbase
The flashbase is a machine-sized integer representation of
address space and so use the appropriate type that is correctly
sized to encode such data.
The flashbase is assigned to 'base' in 'map_flash()' and the
type correctly changed to uintptr_t in commit 4e32ec19b124a7
therefore makes for a consistent type usage whenever stored.
While `sizeof(unsigned long)` and `sizeof(uintptr_t)` are both `8` under
most circumstances on a 64bit platform and thus have enough bits to
represent all addresses on the platform, the C standard does not
guarantee this. Only `uintptr_t` and `void *` has a guaranteed
isomorphism as `uintptr_t` is defined by the platforms toolchain support
whereas the conversion from `void *` to an integer is implementation
defined and that the memory address value may contain additional bits
describing the validation data or provenance of the address. Therefore a
integer is insufficient to contain all the necessary information for
that specific platform so this may not always work out for all platforms
and toolchain combinations.
Spotted-by: Martin Roth <martin.roth@amd.corp-partner.google.com>
Change-Id: Ib9057e438731b9cccde0e24d5c8f758c3af1d47f
Signed-off-by: Edward O'Callaghan <quasisec@google.com>
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M flashrom.c
M include/programmer.h
2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
git pull ssh://review.coreboot.org:29418/flashrom refs/changes/28/75328/2
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