Initialize data section in arm/crt0.S

[Pilhofer, Frank]

Hi,

I am targeting a barebones STM32F0 Cortex-M0 using gcc-4.7.4 and newlib-2.1.0 with nano.specs.

I figured out that the startup code from newlib-2.1.0/libgloss/arm/crt0.S gets used. It initializes the C/C++ runtime environment, provides initialization hooks, and eventually calls main. It looks sensible, so I would like to use it (i.e., use _start as the reset vector) instead of rolling my own.

However, while the code does zero out the BSS segment and calls C++ constructors (__libc_init_array), it does not initialize the data section. So when I get to main, static data is not initialized as it should be.

The attached patch adds data segment initialization.

The gcc-arm-embedded folks suggest that data segment initialization should happen in CPU-specific startup code, i.e., in the code that defines the vector table. Not sure if I agree. But in that case, BSS zeroization should be removed from crt0.S: either do both, or do neither.

Thanks,
Frank


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Frank Pilhofer
Zühlke Engineering GmbH
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