Pure rust chainboot #172

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1. andre-richter commented on Oct 15, 2022

   

   andre-richter

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   Nice! I actually went the exact different route and returned to doing basic init in assembly after reading rust-embedded/cortex-m-rt#300.

   This decision was later reinforced when I realized that you cannot rely on the compiler to not reorder register manipulations done through cortex-a, aka tock-registers, with other operations. Unfortunately I don’t remember exactly where I observed it in a problematic situation, and more unfortunately, I never followed through documenting it.

   Might have been a situation where I wanted to re-set the stack pointer, but function prologue operations always came in first. But naked functions might have helped, so I’m not sure if it was this example.

   All in all, I personally feel more safe having bss and stack prepared in assembly, and thus having the basics of the abstract machine sound when we start with Rust.

   In your code's comments I saw the reference to rust-embedded/cortex-m-rt#300 as well, but haven’t yet checked the other resources you mentioned regarding this discussion.
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   converted this issue into a discussion #173 on Oct 15, 2022