Raspberry Pi BSP debugging

[Gedare Bloom]

Could it be a matter of the compiler (not) knowing the correct
alignment for the target architecture?

To quote Sebastian from a recent post: "Please have a look in the
ARM1176JZF-S manual.  You may have to enable the unaligned access in
the CP15."

-Gedare

On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Alan Cudmore <alan.cudmore at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to track down a bug in the Raspberry Pi BSP. It will be much
> easier once I get a JTAG device, but for now I have been able to narrow down
> one specific instance where the BSP hangs.
>
> The first symptom of this problem was with a shell example. If I type an
> invalid shell command, I noticed it will hang or crash on the strncat
> function.
>
> Next, I modified the simple hello world sample and found that it will also
> hang with a strncat call. I copied the strncat function from the newlib
> sources and found that the local copies ( optimized for size and speed )
> work. The attached example shows the two local strncat calls followed by the
> newlib call. It will always hang on the newlib call.
>
> This example works on the arm920/gdb simulator and the sparc-sis simulator.
>
> Some other notes;
> - The memory map looks reasonable, comparing it to the arm920 map
> - Many other newlib functions work such as strncpy, printf, etc
> - Much of the other basic RTEMS seem to work as well. I can create a RAM
> disk, format it , mount it, copy files, etc. I ran many of the tests such as
> unlimited, ticker, etc.
>
> If anyone has an idea I can try let me know. Otherwise I might just wait
> until I can get a JTAG device hooked up.
>
> Thanks,
> Alan
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