STM32 FreeRTOS and printf

STM32 FreeRTOS and printf

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After some more coding, I found some more issues with FreeRTOS and printf, not being solved by my fix below. If you need to get it fixed completely, look at that forums post: ST Community
and the website of Dave Nadler: newlib and FreeRTOS
In my current project, I replaced the newlib-nano-printf implementation by adding github:mpaland/printf as a git submodule to my project and including the printf.h (it overwrites the printf-library function with macro defines) in my topmost header file.

This will be a very short post. If you experience hard faults when using printf (this happens mostly, when using floats) and you already ticked the appropriate settings in the project’s properties…

…don’t waste your time digging through assembler instructions with instruction stepping (like I did) just to realize, that memory management is broken when using FreeRTOS. It is simply a bug in CubeMX-generated source files. Locate your _sbrk-function (either in syscalls.c or in sysmem.c) and change it to the following:

caddr_t _sbrk(int incr)
{
  extern char end asm("end");
  static char *heap_end;
  char *prev_heap_end,*min_stack_ptr;
  if (heap_end == 0) 
    heap_end = &end; prev_heap_end = heap_end; 
  /* Use the NVIC offset register to locate the main stack pointer. */
  /* Locate the STACK bottom address */
  min_stack_ptr = (char*)(*(unsigned int *)*(unsigned int *)0xE000ED08);
  min_stack_ptr -= MAX_STACK_SIZE; 
  if (heap_end + incr > min_stack_ptr) {
    errno = ENOMEM;
    return (caddr_t) -1;
  }
  heap_end += incr; 
  return (caddr_t) prev_heap_end;
}

For what _sbrk does, have a look here.

If you want to digg a bit deeper, here are some websites dealing with this problem:

themole

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