ARM link/load problem

Seeing this line appear at file scope:

I rather seriously doubt that.

Sorry, caught by a cut and paste error in my haste to put the post together. In this simple test the array got allocated at the end of the variables, so it worked fine without hitting anything else. The original code is built and run regularly on at least 8 different compiler/processor combinations.

The problem as described still exits.

Scott

OK.

Now, repair your cut-and-paste so that it compiles and exhibits the undesired behaviour as posted, without any modifications, and post the code.

The only change was filling in a value for the buff array and removing the commented out line of code.

If the code is linked at RO Base 0x05000000 and RW Base 0x02000000, the load is not initialized correctly. The wrong data gets copied (by the C runtime initialization) to the RW base and a data error occurs on the 4th printf. Is this a bug, or does it need to have scatter loading specified?

Without a RW Base specified the output is:

Addr of sprintffmt = 05001a84

Addr of &sprintffmt[INDEX] = 05001a84

Addr of sprintffmt[INDEX] = 05001908 This is a test

With the RW Base specified as 0x02000000 the output should be:

Addr of sprintffmt = 02000000

Addr of &sprintffmt[INDEX] = 02000000

Addr of sprintffmt[INDEX] = 05001908 This is a test

If I run the second test directly after the first it works fine!. If I power off the board to erase all the ram and run only the second test I get:

Addr of sprintffmt = 02000000

Addr of &sprintffmt[INDEX] = 02000000

Addr of sprintffmt[INDEX] = 4bf7c776 Followed by a Data Abort error from Codewarrior.

Somehow the first load makes the second test work correctly. The first test does not need to be run, only loaded.

BTW, the debugger is an ARM MultiICE under CodeWarrior.

/* * File: main.c * Purpose: sample program * */ #include #include

#define SIZE 4

const char *sprintffmt[SIZE] = /* sprintf format strings */ { "%s\n", /* 0 */ "%s%s\n", /* 1 */ "%s%s%s\n", /* 2 */ "%s%s\n"}; /* 3 */

#define INDEX 0 /* Output buffer filename */ char buff[128]; /* output stream buffer */

int main() { strcpy(buff, "This is a test\n");

printf("\nAddr of sprintffmt = %p \n", sprintffmt ); printf("\nAddr of &sprintffmt[INDEX] = %p \n", &sprintffmt[INDEX] ); printf("\nAddr of sprintffmt[INDEX] = %p \n", sprintffmt[INDEX] );

printf(sprintffmt[INDEX], buff);

return 0; }