RISC-V: Stack pointer initialization in crt0

Christian Herber <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.newlib
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Newlib works great when building a linux user space executable.
However, if you want to run something baremetal in M-mode, the standard startup is a roadblock because of the lack of stack pointer initialization.

I see there had been discussion on this topic here: https://github.com/riscvarchive/riscv-newlib/issues/39

I dislike the current situation as it puts an unnecessary obstacle for users e.g. switching from Arm to RISC-V.
As a user, especially if I build with -spec=nosys.spec, it is strange if the startup assumes an operating system has initialized the stack pointer.

This recent reddit thread shows the situation quite well: https://www.reddit.com/r/RISCV/comments/1hjbxyd/running_an_mmode_rv32_cprogram_on_qemu/
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