OR-ing an offset to a base address instead of adding it is dangerous
because it can only work if the base address is aligned enough for the
offset.
Moreover, if the base address or the offset has a value unknown at
compile time, then the assembly instructions dedicated to 'base +
offset' addressing on most CPUs can't be emitted by the compiler because
this would require the alignment of the base address against the offset
to be known in order to optimize 'base | offset' into 'base + offset'.
In that case, the compiler has to emit more instructions in order to
compute 'base | offset' on most CPUs, e.g. on ARM, which means larger
binary size and slower execution.
Hence, replace all occurrences of 'base | offset' with 'base + offset'.
This must become a coding rule.
Here are the results for the cc2538-demo example:
- Compilation of uart_init():
* before:
REG(regs->base | UART_CC) = 0;
200b78: f446 637c orr.w r3, r6, #4032 ; 0xfc0
200b7c: f043 0308 orr.w r3, r3, #8
200b80: 2200 movs r2, #0
200b82: 601a str r2, [r3, #0]
* now:
REG(regs->base + UART_CC) = 0;
200b7a: 2300 movs r3, #0
200b7c: f8c4 3fc8 str.w r3, [r4, #4040] ; 0xfc8
- Size of the .text section:
* before: 0x4c7c
* now: 0x4c28
* saved: 84 bytes
Signed-off-by: Benoît Thébaudeau <benoit.thebaudeau.dev@gmail.com>
Historically $(OBJECTDIR) was created when Makefile.include is read. A
consequence is that combining "clean" with "all" (or any other build
target) results in an error because the clean removes the object
directory that is required to exist when building dependencies.
Creating $(OBJECTDIR) on-demand ensures it is present when needed.
Removed creation of $(OBJECTDIR) on initial read, and added an order-only
dependency forcing its creation all Makefile* rules where the target is
explicitly or implicitly in $(OBJECTDIR).
This is a general cleanup of things like code style issues and code structure of the STM32w port to make it more like the rest of Contiki is structured.
The added function let a process to make the system go
into deep sleep for maximum power saving.
The udp-ipv6-example shows how to use these new functions.
The symbol generation shell scripts cause CRLF issues on Windows/Cygwin again and again. Instead of fixing this yet again I opted to remove the symbol generation script at least for the "no symbols" scenario with two C source files to be copied.
