Optimisation level on ARM

[Joel Sherrill]

Andy Dachs wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Has anyone had success with the ARM bsps and any optimisation level for CFLAGS_OPTIMIZE_V in the .cfg file?
> 
> I can successfully build a StrongArm BSP and run the sample executables with:
> 
> CPU_CFLAGS = -mcpu=strongarm1100 -msoft-float
> CFLAGS_OPTIMIZE_V=
> 
> But when I've tried the same CPU_FLAGS and:
> 
> CFLAGS_OPTIMIZE_V=-O4 or
> CFLAGS_OPTIMIZE_V=-O2 or
> CFLAGS_OPTIMIZE_V=-O
> 
> Any executable (hello, ticker etc) crashes shortly after startup.  It could well be something in my BSP...

Just a guess but you are probably right.  It is probably optimizing
somethign in your initialization code that is tinkering with HW
and is not using volatile.

> Regards,
> Andy
> 
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