[En-Nut-Discussion] Problems using global variables and/or floating point numbers on Nut/Os (using ethernut 5)

[Vegard Aaker]

Hi,

I have a problem using global variables and/or floating point numbers in
Nut/Os and now I am really hoping that someone might have a clue to what I
have done wrong.

So far I have set up the Nut/Os with;

 Click on Menubar: *Edit > Settings*

   - Goto Tab: *Build*
      - Choose Platform: *arm-gcc*
   - Goto Tab: *Samples*
      - Choose Programmer: *arm-jom*
   - In addition, I have  set the option: C runtime(target specific) - file
   streams - floating point. This might errorous, but I did not find any other
   option for including floating point arithmetics on the board.


(I use the Makefile from the editconf example application if that is of
interest.)

The code I am trying to get working is

#include <dev/board.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/heap.h>
#include <sys/timer.h>


#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <io.h>

int globalD;

int main(void)
{

 u_long baud = 115200;
double fpValue = 0.6333;
 char stringen[]= "2.122321";


 /* Assign stdout to the DEBUG device. */
NutRegisterDevice(&DEV_DEBUG, 0, 0);
 freopen(DEV_DEBUG_NAME, "w", stdout);
_ioctl(_fileno(stdout), UART_SETSPEED, &baud);

/* Register Ethernet controller. */
if (NutRegisterDevice(&DEV_ETHER, 0, 0)) {
 puts("Registering " DEV_ETHER_NAME " failed.");
}


// Testing
 printf("test 1: Global variables \n");
globalD = 5;
 printf("globalD = %d \n\n" , globalD);


 printf("test 2: floating points \n");
fpValue*=2;
 printf("fpValue=0.6333*2 = %f \n\n", fpValue);


printf("test 3: Conversion from text to double: \n");
 printf("stringen er %s \n", stringen);
fpValue = atof(stringen);
 printf("as floating point number =  %f \n\n", fpValue);


    for (;;) {
        NutSleep(1000);
    }

    return 0;
}


I experience the following scenarios:

   - If I remove test 1, test 2 and 3 is working.
   - If I remove test 2 and 3. Test 1 is working
   - If all test cases are active, I get wrong output and the program stops
   after printing 98288333087859433.


Any thoughts to what I have done wrong?



-- 
Kind regards
Vegard Aaker