.cproject setting com.crt.advproject.link.memory.heapAndStack.style keeps changing

[stefanct]

The value of the linker's heap and stack style value keeps changing in my (RT102*) projects keep changing between value="Default" and value="com.crt.advproject.heapAndStack.mcuXpressoStyle". Since I have to keep these files in git this is very annoying. I tried to pin it down but I am not entirely sure how to reproduce it because it is somewhat nondeterministic. It is definitely triggered by accessing the respective settings page (C/C++ Build/Settings/Managed Linker Script)) and hitting apply (no settings change is necessary) as well as building a project but not consistently. What might be important (and also making this more annoying): I have the "Manage linker script" checkbox unticked because I am managing them myself, so the style setting isn't even necessary at all for me.

NB: the value "com.crt.advproject.heapAndStack.mcuXpressoStyle" is actually the stated default value: defaultValue="com.crt.advproject.heapAndStack.mcuXpressoStyle". I have no idea about Eclipse's/CDT's .csetting handling but maybe there is some code path that does not correctly de-references the default value but uses simply the string "Default" instead?

The two complete option XML elements saved by eclipse are quoted below.

<option defaultValue="com.crt.advproject.heapAndStack.mcuXpressoStyle" id="com.crt.advproject.link.memory.heapAndStack.style.347066381" name="Heap and Stack placement" superClass="com.crt.advproject.link.memory.heapAndStack.style" value="com.crt.advproject.heapAndStack.mcuXpressoStyle" valueType="enumerated"/>
<option defaultValue="com.crt.advproject.heapAndStack.mcuXpressoStyle" id="com.crt.advproject.link.memory.heapAndStack.style.347066381" name="Heap and Stack placement" superClass="com.crt.advproject.link.memory.heapAndStack.style" value="Default" valueType="enumerated"/>

Edit: I've tested a bit more. When opening settings at said page with a single configuration (e.g, Debug) and hitting apply, then the style settings for this configuration gets set to the "com.crt.advproject.heapAndStack.mcuXpressoStyle" value while other configurations (e.g., Release) are getting actively set to "Default" even if they were correctly set to "com.crt.advproject.heapAndStack.mcuXpressoStyle" before.

[AdrianOltean]

I've just tried to reproduce the behavior you describe but without any luck. I confirm that there is some code that eventually sets that "heapAndStack.style" attribute/option to "Default". But that seems to happen only when the IDE has not details about the MCU associated to the project. Missing SDK installation maybe?

Do you see a "projectStorage" for ""com.crt.config" inside .cproject? That should also contain some references to a "TargetConfig".

I guess you cannot attach the full project but maybe you can strip-out most of the source files and then attach it here? This would be helpful.

Regards,

Adrian

[stefanct]

It can very well be related to the SDK. I am using our own copy of a git-backed SDK to be able to work around some issues (see my various posts in the SDK issue tracker

However, the projects work fine other than the mentioned issue and that the config tools ask for migrating some peripheral modules to different versions (which also sounds like it could be related). That means I have no errors using the config tools or with building (even in headless mode). I can also jump into the SDKs sources etc. So in *general* the SDK(s) are referenced correctly and work fine.

I don't have *all* the SDK's submodules cloned though because we don't need most of it. Do you have anything specific in mind that it is looking for?

Here is an excerpt of the .cproject file of one of the projects:

	<storageModule moduleId="com.crt.config">
		<projectStorage>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
&lt;TargetConfig&gt;
&lt;Properties property_3="NXP" property_4="MIMXRT1021xxxxx" property_count="5" version="100300"/&gt;
&lt;infoList vendor="NXP"&gt;
&lt;info chip="MIMXRT1021xxxxx" name="MIMXRT1021xxxxx"&gt;
&lt;chip&gt;
&lt;name&gt;MIMXRT1021xxxxx&lt;/name&gt;
&lt;family&gt;MIMXRT1020&lt;/family&gt;
&lt;vendor&gt;NXP&lt;/vendor&gt;
&lt;memory can_program="true" id="Flash" is_ro="true" size="0" type="Flash"/&gt;
&lt;memory id="RAM" size="256" type="RAM"/&gt;
&lt;memoryInstance derived_from="Flash" driver="MIMXRT1020_SFDP_QSPI.cfx" edited="true" id="PROGRAM_FLASH" location="0x60000000" size="0x400000"/&gt;
&lt;memoryInstance derived_from="RAM" edited="true" id="SRAM_DTC" location="0x20000000" size="0x10000"/&gt;
&lt;memoryInstance derived_from="RAM" edited="true" id="SRAM_ITC" location="0x0" size="0x10000"/&gt;
&lt;memoryInstance derived_from="RAM" edited="true" id="SRAM_OC" location="0x20200000" size="0x20000"/&gt;
&lt;memoryInstance derived_from="RAM" edited="true" id="BOARD_SDRAM" location="0x80000000" size="0x1e00000"/&gt;
&lt;memoryInstance derived_from="RAM" edited="true" id="NCACHE_REGION" location="0x81e00000" size="0x200000"/&gt;
&lt;/chip&gt;
&lt;processor&gt;
&lt;name gcc_name="cortex-m7"&gt;Cortex-M7&lt;/name&gt;
&lt;family&gt;Cortex-M&lt;/family&gt;
&lt;/processor&gt;
&lt;/info&gt;
&lt;/infoList&gt;
&lt;/TargetConfig&gt;</projectStorage>
	</storageModule>

Exporting the project is not a big issue overall but the interesting part is... I cannot reproduce the problem by importing that export into a completely fresh workspace either... I then tried importing the project files into a fresh workspace by using the "import from local git repository", which basically makes the two workspaces share the same files on disk, and there I cannot reproduce the problem either(!).

I see the problem consistently with multiple projects in my default workspace on the same machine and the SDKs are shared between the workspaces (as enforced by MCUXpresso)... so I am slightly confused Any ideas apart from ditching the workspace and hoping it was a fluke?

[stefanct]

I have noticed another minor issue that could be related because it also is affected by some SDK reference quirk. If I have an open tab with an SDK file at starting up eclipse, the file cannot be loaded stating the stack trace below. If I then close that tab an load the file again (via the same indexer-provided functionality of ctrl+clicking the file name in an include statement I used to open it before shutting down Eclipse) the file loads just fine.

This is also not reproducible with the fresh workspace(!). Because the plot thickens, I have briefly peeked into the workspace config. Naturally, the old one differs a lot from a fresh one nothing in particular stood out. .metadata/.plugins/com.nxp.mcuxpresso.core.datamodels/sdk_packages_status.xml was missing in my old workspace but copying it over didn't change anything. The subdirectories for the devices in questions in .mcuxpressoide_packages_support and their contents are equal apart from the timestamps in info.properties in both workspace.

org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException: Must specify a URI scheme:SDK_2_x_EVK_MIMXRT1020_manifest_v3_14/core/drivers/lpuart/fsl_lpuart.h
	at org.eclipse.core.internal.filesystem.Policy.error(Policy.java:48)
	at org.eclipse.core.internal.filesystem.Policy.error(Policy.java:43)
	at org.eclipse.core.internal.filesystem.InternalFileSystemCore.getStore(InternalFileSystemCore.java:109)
	at org.eclipse.core.filesystem.EFS.getStore(EFS.java:479)
	at org.eclipse.core.internal.filebuffers.ResourceFileBuffer.create(ResourceFileBuffer.java:244)
	at org.eclipse.core.internal.filebuffers.TextFileBufferManager.connect(TextFileBufferManager.java:115)
	at org.eclipse.ui.editors.text.TextFileDocumentProvider.createFileInfo(TextFileDocumentProvider.java:563)
	at org.eclipse.cdt.internal.ui.editor.CDocumentProvider.createFileInfo(CDocumentProvider.java:792)
	at org.eclipse.ui.editors.text.TextFileDocumentProvider.connect(TextFileDocumentProvider.java:481)
	at org.eclipse.cdt.internal.ui.editor.CDocumentProvider.connect(CDocumentProvider.java:724)
	at org.eclipse.ui.texteditor.AbstractTextEditor.doSetInput(AbstractTextEditor.java:4177)
	at org.eclipse.ui.texteditor.StatusTextEditor.doSetInput(StatusTextEditor.java:262)
	at org.eclipse.ui.texteditor.AbstractDecoratedTextEditor.doSetInput(AbstractDecoratedTextEditor.java:1474)
	at org.eclipse.ui.editors.text.TextEditor.doSetInput(TextEditor.java:153)
	at org.eclipse.cdt.internal.ui.editor.CEditor.internalDoSetInput(CEditor.java:1445)
	at org.eclipse.cdt.internal.ui.editor.CEditor.doSetInput(CEditor.java:1409)
	at org.eclipse.ui.texteditor.AbstractTextEditor.lambda$1(AbstractTextEditor.java:3167)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchWindow.run(WorkbenchWindow.java:2291)
	at org.eclipse.ui.texteditor.AbstractTextEditor.internalInit(AbstractTextEditor.java:3184)
	at org.eclipse.ui.texteditor.AbstractTextEditor.init(AbstractTextEditor.java:3209)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorReference.initialize(EditorReference.java:353)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.e4.compatibility.CompatibilityPart.create(CompatibilityPart.java:344)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:77)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:568)
	at org.eclipse.e4.core.internal.di.MethodRequestor.execute(MethodRequestor.java:58)
	at org.eclipse.e4.core.internal.di.InjectorImpl.processAnnotated(InjectorImpl.java:987)
	at org.eclipse.e4.core.internal.di.InjectorImpl.processAnnotated(InjectorImpl.java:952)
	at org.eclipse.e4.core.internal.di.InjectorImpl.internalInject(InjectorImpl.java:141)
	at org.eclipse.e4.core.internal.di.InjectorImpl.internalMake(InjectorImpl.java:395)
	at org.eclipse.e4.core.internal.di.InjectorImpl.make(InjectorImpl.java:322)
	at org.eclipse.e4.core.contexts.ContextInjectionFactory.make(ContextInjectionFactory.java:202)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.ReflectionContributionFactory.createFromBundle(ReflectionContributionFactory.java:91)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.ReflectionContributionFactory.doCreate(ReflectionContributionFactory.java:60)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.ReflectionContributionFactory.create(ReflectionContributionFactory.java:42)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.ContributedPartRenderer.createWidget(ContributedPartRenderer.java:132)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.createWidget(PartRenderingEngine.java:995)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.safeCreateGui(PartRenderingEngine.java:659)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.safeCreateGui(PartRenderingEngine.java:763)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine$2.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:728)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:45)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.createGui(PartRenderingEngine.java:712)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.StackRenderer.showTab(StackRenderer.java:1344)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.LazyStackRenderer.postProcess(LazyStackRenderer.java:116)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.safeCreateGui(PartRenderingEngine.java:677)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.safeCreateGui(PartRenderingEngine.java:763)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine$2.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:728)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:45)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.createGui(PartRenderingEngine.java:712)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.SWTPartRenderer.processContents(SWTPartRenderer.java:72)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.safeCreateGui(PartRenderingEngine.java:673)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine$1.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:544)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:45)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.createGui(PartRenderingEngine.java:528)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.ElementReferenceRenderer.createWidget(ElementReferenceRenderer.java:73)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.createWidget(PartRenderingEngine.java:995)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.safeCreateGui(PartRenderingEngine.java:659)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.safeCreateGui(PartRenderingEngine.java:763)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine$2.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:728)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:45)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.createGui(PartRenderingEngine.java:712)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.SWTPartRenderer.processContents(SWTPartRenderer.java:72)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.SashRenderer.processContents(SashRenderer.java:150)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.safeCreateGui(PartRenderingEngine.java:673)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.safeCreateGui(PartRenderingEngine.java:763)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine$2.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:728)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:45)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.createGui(PartRenderingEngine.java:712)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.SWTPartRenderer.processContents(SWTPartRenderer.java:72)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.SashRenderer.processContents(SashRenderer.java:150)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.safeCreateGui(PartRenderingEngine.java:673)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.safeCreateGui(PartRenderingEngine.java:763)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine$2.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:728)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:45)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.createGui(PartRenderingEngine.java:712)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.SWTPartRenderer.processContents(SWTPartRenderer.java:72)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.SashRenderer.processContents(SashRenderer.java:150)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.safeCreateGui(PartRenderingEngine.java:673)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.safeCreateGui(PartRenderingEngine.java:763)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine$2.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:728)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:45)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.createGui(PartRenderingEngine.java:712)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.SWTPartRenderer.processContents(SWTPartRenderer.java:72)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.PerspectiveRenderer.processContents(PerspectiveRenderer.java:51)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.safeCreateGui(PartRenderingEngine.java:673)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.safeCreateGui(PartRenderingEngine.java:763)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine$2.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:728)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:45)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.createGui(PartRenderingEngine.java:712)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.PerspectiveStackRenderer.showTab(PerspectiveStackRenderer.java:82)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.LazyStackRenderer.postProcess(LazyStackRenderer.java:116)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.PerspectiveStackRenderer.postProcess(PerspectiveStackRenderer.java:64)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.safeCreateGui(PartRenderingEngine.java:677)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.safeCreateGui(PartRenderingEngine.java:763)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine$2.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:728)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:45)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.createGui(PartRenderingEngine.java:712)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.SWTPartRenderer.processContents(SWTPartRenderer.java:72)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.WBWRenderer.processContents(WBWRenderer.java:658)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.safeCreateGui(PartRenderingEngine.java:673)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.safeCreateGui(PartRenderingEngine.java:763)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine$2.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:728)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:45)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.createGui(PartRenderingEngine.java:712)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine$5.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:1083)
	at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:338)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:1046)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.E4Workbench.createAndRunUI(E4Workbench.java:155)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.lambda$3(Workbench.java:643)
	at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:338)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:550)
	at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:171)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:152)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:203)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:136)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:104)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:402)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:255)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:77)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:568)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:659)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:596)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1467)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:1440)

[ryan1969]

Hello, @stefanctadpvantage 

I can see your query please see below and follow the step-by-step information.

To address the Eclipse CDT settings issue:

• Check Configurations: Ensure all configurations have identical heap and stack settings.
• Edit .cproject: Manually set the heap and stack style in the .cproject file.
• Global Preferences: Review Eclipse’s global preferences for any overriding settings.
• Workspace Metadata: Refresh the project or create a new workspace to test.
• Eclipse Bug Tracker: Look for similar issues on the Eclipse bug tracker.
• Version Control Strategy: Use .gitattributes or pre-commit hooks to ignore changes.
• Update Eclipse: Make sure you’re using the latest Eclipse and CDT plugin versions.

If the problem remains, please tell me I am happy to help you.

Best Regard,
ryan1969