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control is not returning to assembly when tried return(0) in main of test case

Note: This was originally posted on 27th August 2012 at http://forums.arm.com

Hi,

Here is my code. As you can see below from C test case main has return and main was called by assembly code by using BL main.
But when I run this test control never comes back to assembly, since main is not retuning control to assembly as it should have done since BL instruction is used.

I do see that main function is getting completed as it's printing it's messages.

Do I need to do something different?
[color=#1F497D]Assembly code is as below :-[/color]

    //ARM initialization code

//Call C main function

BL main

     MOV r0, #0

     MOV r1, #1

     LDR r2, =0xffffffff

     LDR r10, =0xcab00010

     LDR r0, [r10]

     STR r0, [r10] ; 0's

     STR r2, [r10] ; f's

     STR r0, [r10] ; 0's

     DMB



Loop

        WFI

        B Loop



     B pass

[color=#1F497D] [/color]

[color=#1F497D][/color]Main function of C code is as below :-
[color=#1F497D] [/color]int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {

     loc_puts("INFO: ARM Booted Successfully!\n");

    loc_puts("READ to boot space!\n");      return (0);

}

Lokesh Kumar over 12 years ago

Note: This was originally posted on 4th September 2012 at http://forums.arm.com

Scott,

Thanks for answering.
How to set stack size so that main function doesn't overwrite return address?
Is there any way to avoid it?

I see in assembly we do give option like below

; Heap starts at 1MB in RAM and grows upwards
ARM_LIB_HEAP 0x20100000 EMPTY 0x100000-0x8000
{
}

;; Stack starts at the end of the 2MB of RAM
;; And grows downwards for 32KB
ARM_LIB_STACK 0x20200000 EMPTY -0x8000
{
}

Is this the correct or I need to modify them?

Please guide me, as I am knew to arm flow.

Thanks
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Scott Douglass over 12 years ago

Note: This was originally posted on 29th August 2012 at http://forums.arm.com

I suspect a stack problem. Very likely 'main' uses the stack to save/restore the return address. Possibly the saved return address is being overwritten by 'loc_puts' or possibly the stack pointer (sp/r13) is not pointing to valid memory.
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Scott Douglass over 12 years ago

Note: This was originally posted on 5th September 2012 at http://forums.arm.com

The stack pointer (and indirectly the stack size) is usually set by the "startup code". For bare-metal (no OS) cases this can be code supplied by the development environment. The startup code and is also responsible for things like iniitializing global variables, initializing the C library and calling main. You seem to be writing your own startup code and using the ARM compiler (Keil, DS-5 or RVDS). Have you seen this http://infocenter.ar...h/CHDJGDAD.html (or the equivalent for your version of the tools)? __main is the ARM library's startup code and is what make use of the ARM_LIB_STACK and ARM_LIB_HEAP areas.

The addresses of RAM suitable for use as stack and heap will depend on exactly what target you are using and will be different from one chip/platform to another.
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