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

Lokesh Kumar
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);

  }




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  • Arm Employee Badge
    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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  • Arm Employee Badge
    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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