BBB/AM335x: isspace() results in data abort exception in strtol() in strtol.c and strtoul() in strtoul.c

[Ed Sutter]

On 6/24/2015 1:15 AM, Chris Johns wrote:
> On 24/06/2015 12:44 am, Jarielle Catbagan wrote:
>> That is, I'll get started :-)
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 7:42 AM, Jarielle Catbagan
>> <jcatbagan93 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I totally agree with you.  We should just get right into using the
>>> RTEMS toolset.
> Just a warning. Make sure you do not link to any of RTEMS's libc
> functions. There are '-nostd' type options for the compiler and linker.
>
> RTEMS's libc may or may not work for all sorts of reasons. The RTEMS
> libc contains things to handle threading constructs which will not be
> present in umon and the code will fail. Avoiding those calls helps but
> only a bit. Finding a call works for you gives you no guarantee the call
> will work for all boards and architectures. For example memcpy on a
> Cortex A9 with a NEON needs the MMU up and running so misaligned
> transfers word and if not some calls will exception but not all.
>
> Ok I think I hear "Booo Hisss" which is fair enough but once you get a
> suitable collection of the functions umon uses internal to umon it will
> be better long term. It removes a delicate variable from the boot loader
> and this means umon becomes more portable and more robust.
>
>
These kinds of issues were the exact reason why I opted to get source for any function
that would otherwise require me to pull in libc.