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authorIan McIntyre <me@mciantyre.dev>2025-09-09 08:29:25 -0400
committerIan McIntyre <me@mciantyre.dev>2025-09-09 08:55:06 -0400
commitce97696bcd4515b5b2556163aa50c1b4723e7c0f (patch)
tree9572f07b999c9f1f27ff42390b9bc312e0b7e070 /board
parente014e4ec81a947ae8235a51dc2349af58bb5752d (diff)
Reserve address 0 by shifting ITCM start address
The runtime previously allowed function placement at address 0 in ITCM. However, if you ever formed a pointer to the function placed there, it would look like a null pointer. And you would never be able to call that function if you relied on null pointer optimization. Also, most MCU reference manuals (RM) recommend against this placement. This commit reduces the total capacity of ITCM by 32 bytes, the smallest possible size of a MPU region. Note that this is greater than the RM's recommendation of a four byte reservation. It affects all supported MCUs, except the 1180. If you're so inclined, your MPU could disallow loads, stores, and execution from this reservation. Revised unit tests should cover this change. Additionally, you can manually verify that the ITCM region lengths are reduced by 32 bytes by opening the linker scripts generated by the ELF test suite.
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