of BSS size. The conversion from a count of u8's to a count of
u32's was shifting in the wrong direction. This error had been in
the start code a long time. It had not caused problems because
the BSS is typically much smaller than the C heap which typically
follows it in memory. Plus since this code was executed at start
time, all that really happened was an extra zeroing of some memory.
Here is the result of my nightly work to get RTEMS_ROOT=$srcdir working
with different shells and relative/absolute paths.
What I did is relatively simple in principle:
Instead of setting RTEMS_ROOT in configure.in and then let configure
substitute @RTEMS_ROOT@ inside the Makefiles, I now let each Makefile
set RTEMS_ROOT from each Makefile's @top_srcdir@ value.
The difference is subtile, but with enormous side effects:
- If RTEMS_ROOT is set in configure, then the same single value will be
propagated to all Makefiles. This breaks using relative paths, as the
relative path to the root of the source tree is used inside of all
subdirectory Makefiles.
- Now each Makefile.in sets RTEMS_ROOT = @top_srcdir@. top_srcdir is
computed individually by configure for each single Makefile.in, hereby
receiving the correct value, no matter if relative or absolute paths are
used.
To get this working, I needed to remove setting RTEMS_ROOT from
target.cfg.in, because this overrides the value of RTEMS_ROOT from each
individual Makefile.
Furthermore, I removed RTEMS_CUSTOM from the Makefiles and replaced all
"include $(RTEMS_CUSTOM)" directives with"include
$(RTEMS_ROOT)/make/custom/$(RTEMS_BSP)". Perhaps you don't like this,
but I think, to have one variable less is clearer and easier to
understand than having several variables refering to the next one.
I enclose a small patch to this mail, which
- fixes the config.h problem (to finally clearify misunderstands)
- removes assignment/subsitution of RTEMS_ROOT from configure.in
- contains a workaround for the application Makefile's RTEMS_ROOT
problem (reported by Eric)
- removes some unused lines from the toplevel Makefile.in
- removes assignment of RTEMS_ROOT from make/target.cfg.in
> RTEMS is under CVS control and has been since rtems 3.1.16 which was
> around May 1995. So I just to add the $Id$. If you notice other files
> with missing $Id$'s let me know. I try to keep w\up with it.
Now that you have asked -- I'll attach a list of files lacking an RCS-Id to
this mail. This list has been generated by a little sh-script I'll also
enclose.
>> >>There is a 30 day error in _TOD_Days_since_last_leap_year[2..3]
>> >
>> >Thanks.
>> >What's the condition to hit this error?
>> >Every year 4n+2 and 4n+3 ?
>> >(i.e. 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, ...)
>> >
>> OK: 96 97 00 01 04 05 ...
>> Bad: 98 99 02 03 06 07 ...
There is also a problem in newlib 1.7.x reported at the same time:
>> I found another, that would strike only on 2/29/2000, or other leapyears.
>> Only a problem on 1 day.
>>
>> Joel: FYI, there is a bug in Newlib localtime.c, localtime or (_tm_time).
>> Ours is modified for dst and timezones, but the bug was in original source.
>> I have not looked at the latest public source (nor do I know where to find
>> it).
for GNAT. It was the number of Ada tasks when in fact the run-time
only required a single key.
Also added the CONFIGURE_MAXIMUM_FAKE_ADA_TASKS constant to account
for resources allocated for each non-Ada task/thread which invokes
the Ada run-time implicitly through an Ada call.
1) In my haste to add C++ constructor/destructors to the 68360
linkcmds scripts I managed to break all existing 68360 programs.
Linker scripts which actually produce a working executable are
contained below. The problem was that the constructor/destructors
weren't included before the etext symbol.
On top of that Eric and I appear to have problems with attachments:
2) In deciphering the above problem I think I stumbled across the
reason you've had with patches mailed from me. I noticed that the
linkcmds (and linkcmds.bootp) scripts in the latest distribution have
a control-M (carriage return) at the end of each line. Could you
check the files below before installing them in the distribution and
see that there aren't returns in the files? Maybe if I send
everything as a tar attatchment things will work better.
interpreted at the right point per Eric Norum's discovery:
The problem with the my previous `fix' for adding linker commands
was with the ordering of the options to the linker.
For example, to make a larger heap size, the application Makefile would
CFLAGS_LD = -Wl,--defsym -Wl,HeapSize=0x40000
The command passed to the linker would be :
m68k-rtems-ld .... -T xxx/linkcmds .... --defsym HeapSize=0x40000 .....
This doesn't work because the script in linkcmds inserts a default
value for HeapSize if HeapSize is not defined by the time the linker
looks at the linkcmds script.
The solution seems to be to move the -T linkcmds%s in the bsp_specs
file out of the link specfication and into the lib specification -- a
little unorthodox, perhaps, but it seems to work!
