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Error L6244E Region Not Aligned on CM33 Secure World with Arm v6.19 Compiler

Murat Cakmak

Hello,

We are working on a CM33 device and developing a code for the Secure World.

We are using Arm v6.19 Compiler, and our scatter file is like this

LR_IROM1 0x0C010100 0xFF00 { ; load region size_region

...

}

We need to leave 0x100 bytes before the image to add a metadata as post-build step.

We need to align a variable with 512

uint8_t globalBuffer[512] __attribute(align(512));

But when we align any symbol, we are getting the following error

.\Objects\OSTests_S1.axf: Error: L6244E: Load region LR_IROM1 address (0x0c010100) not aligned on a 512 byte boundary.

If we align with 256, there is no problem as LR_IROM1 offset aligned with 256.

The same code is used by different architectures, so we need to keep the alignment as is.


But it does not make sense, why a variable alignment affects the image alignment.

And there is no documentation (seems empty) about this error

Any idea?

Thanks

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  • 0 in reply to Ronan Synnott

    Hi @ronans, 

    Thank you for the details. 

    Let me give a bit more about our scatter file. We have a section to collect all RO, called ER_IROM1 inside the LR_IROM1.

    LR_IROM1 0x0C010100 0xFF00 { 
        ER_IROM1 0x0C010100 0xFF00 {
            *.o (RESET, +First)
            *(InRoot$$Sections)
            .ANY (+RO)
        }

        RW_IRAM1 0x30008000 0x00002000 { ; RW data
            .ANY (+RW +ZI)
             *(STACK)
        }
    }

    Yes, we tried to add a section for 0x100 size for metadata just before the ER_IROM1 section, (And we set the LR_IROM offset to 0x0C010000 from 0x0C010100 to include the Metadata)

    but then we started to get the same error for ER_IROM1, not for LR_IROM.

    But still does not make sense, why a variable alignment is related to the Code section?

    As the online documentation is empty, where to get the a full documentation about the linker behaviour.

    PS: I can be wrong but we did not have this error before, we have a new setup with the latest MDK 3.28. I am wondering does it come from the toolchain?

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  • 0 in reply to Ronan Synnott

    Hi @ronans, 

    Thank you for the details. 

    Let me give a bit more about our scatter file. We have a section to collect all RO, called ER_IROM1 inside the LR_IROM1.

    LR_IROM1 0x0C010100 0xFF00 { 
        ER_IROM1 0x0C010100 0xFF00 {
            *.o (RESET, +First)
            *(InRoot$$Sections)
            .ANY (+RO)
        }

        RW_IRAM1 0x30008000 0x00002000 { ; RW data
            .ANY (+RW +ZI)
             *(STACK)
        }
    }

    Yes, we tried to add a section for 0x100 size for metadata just before the ER_IROM1 section, (And we set the LR_IROM offset to 0x0C010000 from 0x0C010100 to include the Metadata)

    but then we started to get the same error for ER_IROM1, not for LR_IROM.

    But still does not make sense, why a variable alignment is related to the Code section?

    As the online documentation is empty, where to get the a full documentation about the linker behaviour.

    PS: I can be wrong but we did not have this error before, we have a new setup with the latest MDK 3.28. I am wondering does it come from the toolchain?

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