[ECOS] JFFS2 on ARM target

["Doyle, Patrick" <WPD@dtccom.com>]

I'm confused by something I'm seeing with JFFS2 on my arm target, and I was
wondering if anybody else had seen anything similar.

Basically, what I see is that when JFFS2 goes through and marks a block as
being erased, it seems to me that it should be writing 'JFFS2_MAGIC_BITMASK'
(0x1985) to the marker for the block.  What I'm seeing is that 0x2003 gets
written into the marker field.

Staring at disassembled code for a couple of hours makes me believe that
this is, in fact, exactly what the opcodes are telling the CPU to do,
despite what one would expect from looking at the C code.

So now I'm curious... are there known bugs with gcc 3.2.1 for the ARM that
make it a terrible candidate for processing linux-like code that includes
constructs such as:


struct jffs2_unknown_node marker = {
	.magic =	cpu_to_je16(JFFS2_MAGIC_BITMASK),
	.nodetype =	cpu_to_je16(JFFS2_NODETYPE_CLEANMARKER),
	.totlen =	cpu_to_je32(c->cleanmarker_size)
};

I've been using 3.2.1 for years without problems, but I've been using it in
eCos to do eCos related stuff.  Since JFFS2 was originally designed for
Linux, it looks more Linux-like than eCos-like.

I notice I've been using 3.4.5 for my Linux builds.

--wpd

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