[ECOS] Failure to run application

[Henrik Mau <Henrik dot Mau at sli-institute dot ac dot uk>]

I have an ARM Integrator with an ARM7TDMI processor on it. Redboot has 
been built and seems to be running fine.
I have built the twothreads example using a default build of eCos for 
ARM Integrator 7TDMI.
After I have downloaded the program using Insight I step through the 
code using asm steps.

When executing the platform setup, setting up LED and control vectors, 
an exception occurs and the program counter starts executing code in 
Cyg_Scheduler::unlock in the application although the scheduler has not 
started yet. It finally ends in a SIGBUS error somewhere in the 
scheduler code.

When looking into the details of what the assembly code does I noticed 
some discrepancies between the source code in hal_platform_setup.h and 
the disassembled shown in Insight. Specifically, "mov" instructions 
shown in Insight are "ldr" instructions in the source code. Even 
stranger however, is that loading a value into a register using "mov" 
does not work. The value is not updated. Thinking that Insight might not 
be updating the contents of the register window properly I rewrote the 
exception handler for Redboot and dumped the registers to memory every 
time an exception happens. This showed that the registers do in fact not 
get updated.



   ldr     r0,=INTEGRATOR_DBG_BASE                                  
   ldr     r1,=0                                                    
   strb    r1, [r0, #INTEGRATOR_DBG_LEDS_OFFSET]                    
   ldr        r0, =INTEGRATOR_HDR_BASE                                 
   ldr        r1, [r0, #INTEGRATOR_HDR_CTRL_OFFSET]                    
   orr        r1, r1, #INTEGRATOR_HDR_CTRL_REMAP                     
   str     r1, [r0, #INTEGRATOR_HDR_CTRL_OFFSET]                    
   ldr        r1, =INTEGRATOR_IRQCONT_BASE                             
   ldr        r0, =0xFFFFFFFF                                          
   str        r0, [r1, #INTEGRATOR_IRQENABLECLEAR]                  
   str        r0, [r1, #INTEGRATOR_FIQENABLECLEAR]                  
   ldr     r0,=INTEGRATOR_DBG_BASE                                  
   ldr     r1,=0xF                                                  
   strb    r1, [r0, #INTEGRATOR_DBG_LEDS_OFFSET]



   mov        r0, #436207616 ; 0x1a000000                          r0 
retains the value 1
   mov        r1, #0                                                 
               r1 retains the value 1
   strb    r1, [r0, #4]
   mov        r0, #268435456 ; 0x10000000                         r0 
retains the value 1
   ldr        r1, [r0, #12]                                             
           r1 gets a new value, but not the expected one
   orr        r1, r1, #4                                             
               r1 becomes 0??
   str        r1, [r0, #12]
   mov        r1, #335544320 ; 0x14000000                         r1 
retains the value 0
   ldr        r0, [pc, #1224] ; 0x40530 <_eCos_id+20>        Exception 
happens when executing this instruction. Link register points to next 
instruction.
   str        r0, [r1, #12]
   str        r0, [r1, #44]
   mov        r0, #436207616 ; 0x1a000000
   mov        r1, #15
   strb    r1, [r0, #4]


The only explanation I can come up with is that the disassembled source 
code I shown is not correct and something entirely different takes place.
I am at a loss as to what else it could be and would appreciate any help 
I can get.

Kind regards,
Henrik


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