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	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>
		
	
			
		
			
				
	
	
		
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| /*
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|  * Copyright 2000-2009
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|  * Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd@denx.de.
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|  *
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|  * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
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|  * project.
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|  *
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|  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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|  * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
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|  * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
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|  * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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|  *
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|  * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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|  * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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|  * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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|  * GNU General Public License for more details.
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|  *
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|  * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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|  * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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|  * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
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|  * MA 02111-1307 USA
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|  */
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| 
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| #include <common.h>
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| #include <command.h>
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| 
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| int do_help(cmd_tbl_t * cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char * const argv[])
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| {
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| 	return _do_help(&__u_boot_cmd_start,
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| 			&__u_boot_cmd_end - &__u_boot_cmd_start,
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| 			cmdtp, flag, argc, argv);
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| }
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| 
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| U_BOOT_CMD(
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| 	help,	CONFIG_SYS_MAXARGS,	1,	do_help,
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| 	"print command description/usage",
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| 	"\n"
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| 	"	- print brief description of all commands\n"
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| 	"help command ...\n"
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| 	"	- print detailed usage of 'command'"
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| );
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| 
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| /* This does not use the U_BOOT_CMD macro as ? can't be used in symbol names */
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| cmd_tbl_t __u_boot_cmd_question_mark Struct_Section = {
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| 	"?",	CONFIG_SYS_MAXARGS,	1,	do_help,
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| 	"alias for 'help'",
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| #ifdef  CONFIG_SYS_LONGHELP
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| 	""
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| #endif /* CONFIG_SYS_LONGHELP */
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| };
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