This was broken a long time ago by a49864593e083a5d0779fb9ca98e5a0f2053183d which munged the NIOS and x86 do_go_exec() Signed-off-by: Graeme Russ <graeme.russ@gmail.com>
@@ -422,10 +422,10 @@ void hang (void)
unsigned long do_go_exec (ulong (*entry)(int, char *[]), int argc, char *argv[])
{
/*
- * TODO: Test this function - changed to fix compiler error.
- * Original code was:
- * return (entry >> 1) (argc, argv);
- * with a comment about Nios function pointers are address >> 1
+ * x86 does not use a dedicated register to pass the pointer
+ * to the global_data
*/
+ argv[-1] = (char *)gd;
+
return (entry) (argc, argv);
}