[Icc-avr] stack size needed to use fp?

[bobgardner at aol.com]

Good clue Rich! So my whole problem could be sort of an fp underflow..... Wonder if I could hide an 0x55aa before and after the fp convert buffer and check for buffer overrun after cprintfs? Any idea how to find the address of the fp buffer?

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Webb <webbra.mlist at verizon.net>
To: icc-avr at imagecraft.com
Sent: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:52 am
Subject: Re: [Icc-avr] stack size needed to use fp?


> Hello imagecraft users. I have had 'problems' with my programs going nuts > and the common theme seems to be something to do with fp print or fp divide. > I'll ask for forgiveness for using fp right now. But I'd like one or two folks > out there to edit and compile a simple program using floats and %7.1f format > spec and tell me if it runs ok with hw stack of 0x80 or the hw stack has to be > larger to run. I've tried every stack size up to 0x400 and still get blowups > and strings of garbage printed out. I can dump ram and see a repeating > pattern all thru ram. This would obviously clobber the stack, but if this is a > 'bug', how could it be in version after version and no one else run into it? If > its my arcane programming style, then I need some help bad. Thanks for > reading.?
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Just guessing, but you may be overrunning your buffer space, since the printf() conversion routines return "ftoa error: number too big" (or "...small") if the target of the conversion is out of range.?
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It appears from a little experimenting that %f and %g hit the wall in sprintf() somewhere below 2E-9 and above 2E9, rather than handling the full E-38 to E+38 range.?
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FWIW, this was with V7.16a with a stack size of 50 on an AT90CAN128 that I happened to have mounted for another project.?
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The fragment:?
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? anum = 1.0;?
? bnum = 1.0;?
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? while (1) {?
? if (tick) {?
? tick = 0;?
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? anum *= 17.3;?
? bnum *= 1.3;?
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? sprintf(buf, "%g / %g = %g\r\n", anum, bnum, anum / bnum);?
? ...?
? }?
? }?
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produces:?
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17.299999 / 1.3 = 13.307691 ?
299.289947 / 1.69 = 177.094665 ?
5177.715332 / 2.196999 = 2356.721191 ?
89574.460937 / 2.856099 = 31362.523437 ?
1.549638e6 / 3.712928 = 417362.75 ?
2.680873e7 / 4.826806 = 5.554135e6 ?
4.637910e8 / 6.274847 = 7.391272e7 ?
ftoa error: number too big / 8.157299 = 9.836079e8 ?
ftoa error: number too big / 10.604487 = ftoa error: number too big ?
ftoa error: number too big / 13.785831 = ftoa error: number too big?
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