[AndresN]

can anyone please explain to a beginner why a simple program (below) apparently corrupts the Locals (as seen in IDE, image below).
It doesn't seem to happen for integers, though.
Sure I'm doing something wrong, but what is it, and how to fix?
It's modified "startup_Cortex-A8", going emulator "startup-Cortex-A8-RTSM-example.launch" (otherwise all fresh installation)

int main(void)
{
  float A;
  float B;
  float C;
  float D;
  A = 1.2f;
  B = 2.3f;
  C = 3.4f;
  D = B + C;
  return 0;
}

[scott]

What compiler and optimization level are you using?

The compiler is only required to make the sure the function behaves according to the standard -- this does not include debugging. Since your function returns 0, the variables A, B, C and D don't really affect anything and the compiler can eliminate them partially or completely if it wants. In fact, if you look in the Location column of the float case, you can see that B and C have both been put in the same register.

You can probably convince the compiler to keep the variables by taking their addresses and passing them to another function, e.g.

  printf("&A=%p, &B=%p, &C=%p, &D=%p\n", &A, &B, &C, &D);

[AndresN]

Thanks, Scott, you were so right!
Simply adding the printf made a difference.
And I can see they are in memory now (no more in registers)
Compiler and optimization level was armcc -O0 --cpu=Cortex-A8 -g -c -o"sorts.o" "../sorts.c"

scott, on 26 June 2012 - 07:44 AM, said:

What compiler and optimization level are you using?

The compiler is only required to make the sure the function behaves according to the standard -- this does not include debugging. Since your function returns 0, the variables A, B, C and D don't really affect anything and the compiler can eliminate them partially or completely if it wants. In fact, if you look in the Location column of the float case, you can see that B and C have both been put in the same register.

You can probably convince the compiler to keep the variables by taking their addresses and passing them to another function, e.g.

  printf("&A=%p, &B=%p, &C=%p, &D=%p\n", &A, &B, &C, &D);