From c646b767971f5750b32f0bc8290a2eea351cb514 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Øyvind Harboe Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 21:54:55 +0100 Subject: target: add todo in target_write_memory() about alignment MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit target_write_buffer() does not align "buffer" in host memory passed to target_write_memory(). Signed-off-by: Øyvind Harboe --- src/target/target.h | 15 +++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'src') diff --git a/src/target/target.h b/src/target/target.h index da91d464..7400b7e1 100644 --- a/src/target/target.h +++ b/src/target/target.h @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ * Copyright (C) 2005 by Dominic Rath * * Dominic.Rath@gmx.de * * * - * Copyright (C) 2007-9 Øyvind Harboe * + * Copyright (C) 2007-2010 Øyvind Harboe * * oyvind.harboe@zylin.com * * * * Copyright (C) 2008 by Spencer Oliver * @@ -371,7 +371,18 @@ int target_read_memory(struct target *target, uint32_t address, uint32_t size, uint32_t count, uint8_t *buffer); /** * Write @a count items of @a size bytes to the memory of @a target at - * the @a address given. + * the @a address given. @a address must be aligned to @a size + * in target memory. + * + * The endianness is the same in the host and target memory for this + * function. + * + * \todo TODO: + * Really @a buffer should have been defined as "const void *" and + * @a buffer should have been aligned to @a size in the host memory. + * + * This is not enforced via e.g. assert's today and e.g. the + * target_write_buffer fn breaks this assumption. * * This routine is wrapper for target->type->write_memory. */ -- cgit v1.2.3