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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
Wolfgang Denk
1113cb764b evb64260: fix "cast to pointer from integer of different size" warnings
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
2008-12-09 23:13:51 +01:00
Jon Loeliger
77a318545d board/[A-Za-i]*: Remove lingering references to CFG_CMD_* symbols.
Fixed some broken instances of "#ifdef CMD_CFG_IDE" too.
Those always evaluated TRUE, and thus were always compiled
even when IDE really wasn't defined/wanted.

Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
2007-07-10 10:39:10 -05:00
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
wdenk
0d4983930a Patch by Kenneth Johansson, 30 Jun 2003:
get rid of MK_CMD_ENTRY macro; update doc/README.command
2003-07-01 21:06:45 +00:00
wdenk
8bde7f776c * Code cleanup:
- remove trailing white space, trailing empty lines, C++ comments, etc.
  - split cmd_boot.c (separate cmd_bdinfo.c and cmd_load.c)

* Patches by Kenneth Johansson, 25 Jun 2003:
  - major rework of command structure
    (work done mostly by Michal Cendrowski and Joakim Kristiansen)
2003-06-27 21:31:46 +00:00
wdenk
fe8c2806cd Initial revision 2002-11-03 00:38:21 +00:00