Hi, We've noticed an issue trying to use the Linaro AArch64 binary bare metal toolchain release with the MMU turned off for some low-level tests.
Anytime puts, sprintf, etc. gets called, a reent structure gets created with references to STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR FILE types. A member in the __sFile struct, _mbstate, is an 8 byte struct, but is not aligned on an 8 byte boundary. This means that when memset (or a similar function) gets called on this struct, and doesn't operate one byte at a time, a data alignment fault will be generated when operating out of device memory, such as on a system where the MMU has not yet been turned on yet. I'm still examining possible fixes (I'll probably look at building with -mstrict-align first), but I wanted to check if anyone had thoughts on the subject and if Newlib upstream or Linaro consider using Newlib with the MMU turned off to be a valid use case or if running the code that turns on the MMU is considered a prerequisite to everything else. Thanks, Christopher -- Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by the Linux Foundation. _______________________________________________ linaro-toolchain mailing list linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain
