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modify stack start in linker file of an LPC2148 project
Author: Noel Le moult (noel)
Posted on: 2010-02-05 14:41
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Hi,

I have made a project using an LPC2148 evaluation board from sparkfun
(logomatic V2).

I think that I have a memory overflow problem because some global data
are overwrited during my program execution without any write.

Example:
Bebug output in the beginning of my program execution
    weekday N0 alarm: morning_en:0 afternoon_en:0
    weekday N1 alarm: morning_en:1 afternoon_en:1
                  08h:30m
                  12h:00m
                  14h:00m
                  17h:30m
    weekday N2 alarm: morning_en:1 afternoon_en:1
                  08h:30m
                  12h:00m
                  14h:00m
                  17h:30m
    weekday N3 alarm: morning_en:1 afternoon_en:1
                  08h:30m
                  12h:00m
                  14h:00m
                  17h:30m
    weekday N4 alarm: morning_en:1 afternoon_en:1
                  08h:30m
                  12h:00m
                  14h:00m
                  17h:30m
    weekday N5 alarm: morning_en:1 afternoon_en:1
                  08h:30m
                  12h:00m
                  14h:00m
                  17h:30m
    weekday N6 alarm: morning_en:1 afternoon_en:0
                  09h:00m
                  12h:00m


and when I read the same data later I could see that some data are
overwrited by some strange values:
    weekday N0 alarm: morning_en:0 afternoon_en:0
    weekday N1 alarm: morning_en:1 afternoon_en:1
                  08h:30m
                  12h:00m
                  14h:00m
                  17h:30m
    weekday N2 alarm: morning_en:1 afternoon_en:1
                  08h:30m
                  12h:00m
                  14h:00m
                  17h:30m
    weekday N3 alarm: morning_en:1 afternoon_en:1
                  08h:30m
                  12h:00m
                  14h:00m
                  17h:30m
    weekday N4 alarm: morning_en:53 afternoon_en:208
                  00h:02m
                  00h:17m
                  00h:04m
                  00h:17m
    weekday N5 alarm: morning_en:54 afternoon_en:44
                  00h:100m
                  00h:128m
                  53h:11m
                  157h:60m
    weekday N6 alarm: morning_en:28 afternoon_en:50
                  53h:248m
                  00h:04m
                  54h:220m
                  00h:100m


I think that the .bss section (my global data) is overwrited by the
.stack

Here is some detail:
Section    Size    Address
.text     75100  0001 0000
.data      2576  4000 0000
.bss       9564  4000 0A10
.stack     3072  4000 3000

in startup.s file
.set UND_Stack_Size, 0x00000080
.set SVC_Stack_Size, 0x00000080
.set ABT_Stack_Size, 0x00000080
.set FIQ_Stack_Size, 0x00000080
.set IRQ_Stack_Size, 0x00000200
.set USR_Stack_Size, 0x00000800


So the size of the stack (3000) is correct but I don't understand why it
start so close to the .bss section. Shouldn't be at the address 4000
8000 ?

The .bss section end at 4000 0A10 + 255C = 4000 2F6C
If the .stack data start at 4000 3000 it may collide with the .bss
section (4000 3000 - 0C00 = 4000 2400) !!

Could you help me to solve this problem?
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Re: modify stack start in linker file of an LPC2148 project
Author: Noel Le moult (noel)
Posted on: 2010-02-05 15:24 
I have increased the stack size from 0x800 to 0x1000 and my error seems
to be solved.

I hope the problem is totally solved.

Here is the modification:

main_memory_block.ld
ENTRY(_boot)
STACK_SIZE = 0x1000; -> see startup-file and .stack-section


startup.S
.set USR_Stack_Size, 0x00001000


Do you agree with me?
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Re: modify stack start in linker file of an LPC2148 project
Author: Martin Thomas (mthomas) (Moderator)
Posted on: 2010-02-05 18:12 
Noel Le moult wrote:
> I have increased the stack size from 0x800 to 0x1000 and my error seems
> to be solved.
>
> I hope the problem is totally solved.
>
> Here is the modification:
>
> main_memory_block.ld
>
> ENTRY(_boot)
> STACK_SIZE = 0x1000; -> see startup-file and .stack-section
> 

The mentioned lines are commented out in the file attached to the first
post (seem a unmodified version from one of may examples).

While the STACK_SIZE definition is not used since the stacks are defined
in the startup-code it is a good idea to place an ENTRY line into the
linker-script (outside a comment). Here ENTRY(Reset_Handler) should do.

> startup.S
>
> .set USR_Stack_Size, 0x00001000
> 
>
> Do you agree with me?

Yes. This defines the size of the user-mode stack which is later used to
define a memory-area for this stack (using .space) and during the
startup-code to initialise the core's stack-pointer for the user-mode
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