https://community.nxp.com/t5/Kinetis-Microcontrollers/Linking-Builtin-ROM-code-in-KEAZ64xxx4/m-p/1431294#M62696 <P>The issue was not related to the linker at all.&nbsp; Another author had declared a string like this:<BR /><BR />static const uint8_t *Carriage = "\r\n";</P><P>When strlen(Carriage) was run against this, it crashed.</P><P>When the declaration was rewritten, it works.</P><P>static const uint8_t Carriage[] = "\r\n";</P> Mon, 21 Mar 2022 12:25:55 GMT mfarv 2022-03-21T12:25:55Z https://community.nxp.com/t5/Kinetis-Microcontrollers/Linking-Builtin-ROM-code-in-KEAZ64xxx4/m-p/1430828#M62685 <P>I have a bare metal application that crashes whenever strlen is called.&nbsp; The same code that previously leveraged PE does not.&nbsp;</P><P>As I understand it this function may exist in ROM on the part, instead of having to be compiled into the flash image.&nbsp; Is this correct, and if so how do I tell the linker that fact since the default linker file does not appear to include it?&nbsp; (Modified bare metal linker script is attached)</P> Fri, 18 Mar 2022 20:10:04 GMT https://community.nxp.com/t5/Kinetis-Microcontrollers/Linking-Builtin-ROM-code-in-KEAZ64xxx4/m-p/1430828#M62685 mfarv 2022-03-18T20:10:04Z https://community.nxp.com/t5/Kinetis-Microcontrollers/Linking-Builtin-ROM-code-in-KEAZ64xxx4/m-p/1431294#M62696 <P>The issue was not related to the linker at all.&nbsp; Another author had declared a string like this:<BR /><BR />static const uint8_t *Carriage = "\r\n";</P><P>When strlen(Carriage) was run against this, it crashed.</P><P>When the declaration was rewritten, it works.</P><P>static const uint8_t Carriage[] = "\r\n";</P> Mon, 21 Mar 2022 12:25:55 GMT https://community.nxp.com/t5/Kinetis-Microcontrollers/Linking-Builtin-ROM-code-in-KEAZ64xxx4/m-p/1431294#M62696 mfarv 2022-03-21T12:25:55Z