17 Sep
2014
17 Sep
'14
7:33 a.m.
Dear Marek,
In message 201409162355.22221.marex@denx.de you wrote:
... For the get_ram_size(), the readfrom the unpopulated DRAM space contains zeroes ...
<nitpick>
Reading from non-existent memory is not guaranteed to return zeroes, nor any other specific value; in general, the value you read back is undefined.
</nitpick>
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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