Re: Need some help with xtensa processor

Ben Greear <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gdb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On 08/31/2016 09:20 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> On 08/16/16(Tue) 20:01 <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> I'm working on a closed source (not my decision) project that uses
>> an xtensa cpu.  I have no jtag access to this board, but I can pass
>> messages, including grabbing 'logs' and stack traces on crash, and so
>> forth.
>>
>> Currently, I have narrowed down a bug to a wild write on a structure of
>> method pointers.  Next time code tries to execute one of these methods,
>> it crashes spectacularly.
>
> It's been about a two weeks, did you ever solve the issue?
> It might be helpful to others with similar problems (you don't need to
> provide identifying information).

I could never get it working.  My problem is likely that I do not know how to
write the assembly that creates and assigns the exception vector.

In the end, it was easier to track down the problem by adding asserts
and debug statements...

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <[email protected]>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com
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