sprintf in simple C examples

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sprintf in simple C examples

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gcc has a tendency to jump to conclusions about what will need to be linked in later. Often time that conclusion is some part of the linux library that is not compatible with the bare metal environment of embedded ARMs.

One user added an sprintf statement to Hello_World.c and that caused an erroneous linker error

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C:\GIT\armbasic\bin>arm-none-eabi-gcc C:/GIT/armbasic/CMSIS/include/startup.o C:/GIT/armbasic/CMSIS/Palma_world.o C:/GIT/armbasic/CMSIS/include/printf.o C:/GIT/armbasic/CMSIS/include/uart.o C:/GIT/armbasic/CMSIS/include/coridium_pcb.o C:/GIT/armbasic/CMSIS/include/system_LPC5410x.o C:/GIT/armbasic/CMSIS/include/IRQ_cortex.o C:/GIT/armbasic/CMSIS/include/systick.o C:/GIT/armbasic/CMSIS/include/breakpoint.o -Wall  -IC:/GIT/armbasic/CMSIS -IC:/GIT/armbasic/CMSIS/include -IC:/GIT/armbasic/CMSIS/usb -mcpu=cortex-m4 -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=fpv4-sp-d16 -mthumb -funsigned-char -mthumb-interwork -Os -fno-inline -TC:/GIT/armbasic/lib/LPC54102-ROM.ld -Wcast-align -nostartfiles -Xlinker -oC:/GIT/armbasic/CMSIS/Palma_world.elf -Xlinker -M -Xlinker -Map=C:/GIT/armbasic/CMSIS/Palma_world.map -lm 
child process exited abnormally
c:/git/armbasic/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-none-eabi/4.6.2/../../../../arm-none-eabi/bin/ld.exe: error: C:/GIT/armbasic/CMSIS/Palma_world.elf uses VFP register arguments, c:/git/armbasic/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-none-eabi/4.6.2/../../../../arm-none-eabi/lib/thumb/v7m\libc.a(lib_a-strcpy.o) does not
c:/git/armbasic/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-none-eabi/4.6.2/../../../../arm-none-eabi/bin/ld.exe: failed to merge target specific data of file c:/git/armbasic/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-none-eabi/4.6.2/../../../../arm-none-eabi/lib/thumb/v7m\libc.a(lib_a-strcpy.o)
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
The work around for this was to add your own strcpy routine in the source. We have seen things like this before, and managed to avoid it as we had already been using our own strcpy.

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void strcpy(char * dest, char * src) {
	while (*src) {
		*dest++ = *src++;
	}
	*dest = 0;
}



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