Have a problem replacing static library into another memory

lpcware — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 19:07:36 GMT

Content originally posted in LPCWare by ahubchak on Fri Mar 25 03:06:29 MST 2016
Hello everyone,

I need your help. I have been trying to move the emWin static library (.a file) to the internal flash of my device and the rest part of my code is running from the external flash. So I have corrected my linker script to do so. Now it looks like this.

//Linker File content

/*
    ChibiOS/RT - Copyright (C) 2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,
                 2011,2012 Giovanni Di Sirio.

    This file is part of ChibiOS/RT.

    ChibiOS/RT is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    ChibiOS/RT is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

                                      ---

    A special exception to the GPL can be applied should you wish to distribute
    a combined work that includes ChibiOS/RT, without being obliged to provide
    the source code for any proprietary components. See the file exception.txt
    for full details of how and when the exception can be applied.
*/

/*
 * LPC4357 memory setup.
 */
__main_stack_size__     = 0x0400;
__process_stack_size__  = 0x0400;

MEMORY
{
    flash (RXI): org = 0x14000000, len = 4096K
    ram (RA): org = 0x10000000, len = 32K
    ram2 (RA): org = 0x10080000, len = 40K
    flashB (RXI): org = 0x1b000000, len = 512K
}

__ram_start__           = ORIGIN(ram);
__ram_size__            = LENGTH(ram);
__ram_end__             = __ram_start__ + __ram_size__;

__ram2_start__           = ORIGIN(ram2);
__ram2_size__            = LENGTH(ram2);
__ram2_end__             = __ram2_start__ + __ram2_size__;


REGION_ALIAS ("REGION_emWin", flashB)

SECTIONS
{
    . = 0x14000000;
    _text = .;

    startup : ALIGN(16) SUBALIGN(16)
    {
        KEEP(*(vectors))
    } > flash

    constructors : ALIGN(4) SUBALIGN(4)
    {
        PROVIDE(__init_array_start = .);
        KEEP(*(SORT(.init_array.*)))
        KEEP(*(.init_array))
        PROVIDE(__init_array_end = .);
    } > flash

    destructors : ALIGN(4) SUBALIGN(4)
    {
        PROVIDE(__fini_array_start = .);
        KEEP(*(.fini_array))
        KEEP(*(SORT(.fini_array.*)))
        PROVIDE(__fini_array_end = .);
    } > flash

 .gui_text : 
    {
    *emWin*:*  *(.text)
    } > flashB

   
    .text : ALIGN(16) SUBALIGN(16)
    {
        *(.text.startup.*)
        *(.text)
        *(.text.*)
        *(.rodata)
        *(.rodata.*)
        *(.glue_7t)
        *(.glue_7)
        *(.gcc*)
    } > flash


    .ARM.extab :
    {
        *(.ARM.extab* .gnu.linkonce.armextab.*)
    } > flash

    .ARM.exidx : {
        PROVIDE(__exidx_start = .);
        *(.ARM.exidx* .gnu.linkonce.armexidx.*)
        PROVIDE(__exidx_end = .);
     } > flash

    .eh_frame_hdr :
    {
        *(.eh_frame_hdr)
    } > flash

    .eh_frame : ONLY_IF_RO
    {
        *(.eh_frame)
    } > flash
    
    .textalign : ONLY_IF_RO
    {
        . = ALIGN(8);
    } > flash

    . = ALIGN(4);
    _etext = .;
    _textdata = _etext;

    .stacks :
    {
        . = ALIGN(8);
        __main_stack_base__ = .;
        . += __main_stack_size__;
        . = ALIGN(8);
        __main_stack_end__ = .;
        __process_stack_base__ = .;
        __main_thread_stack_base__ = .;
        . += __process_stack_size__;
        . = ALIGN(8);
        __process_stack_end__ = .;
        __main_thread_stack_end__ = .;
    } > ram

.data :
{

}

.data :
    {
        . = ALIGN(4);
        PROVIDE(_data = .);
        *(.data)
        . = ALIGN(4);
        *(.data.*)
        . = ALIGN(4);
        *(.ramtext)
        . = ALIGN(4);
        PROVIDE(_edata = .);
    } > ram AT > flash


    .bss :
    {
        . = ALIGN(4);
        PROVIDE(_bss_start = .);
        *(.bss)
        . = ALIGN(4);
        *(.bss.*)
        . = ALIGN(4);
        *(COMMON)
        . = ALIGN(4);
        PROVIDE(_bss_end = .);
    } > ram2
}

PROVIDE(end = .);
_end            = .;

__heap_base__   = __ram_start__;
__heap_end__    = __ram_end__;

__heap2_base__   = __ram2_start__;
__heap2_end__    = __ram2_end__;

When I am using the objdump tool to have a look at what is going on, it says that the'.gui_text' section is placed where it's supposed to be. It starts from the 0x1b000000 address. The image is attached.

But after the above mentioned changes, my program is not working correctly anymore. It crashes if I am using debugging step by step instead of breakpoints. And it seems like it is not able to read some of the variables anymore, even though I haven`t changed the '.data' section. Could somebody help me with this? Because I am new in the linker scripts area)

Cheers,
Andrew Hubchak

Re: Have a problem replacing static library into another memory

lpcware — Sun, 19 Jun 2016 01:06:14 GMT

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