Version 0.7.1 of the cortex-m-rt crate introduced a regression causing the stack to NOT be eight-byte aligned prior to calling main (or any other specified entrypoint), violating the stack ABI of AAPCS32, the default ABI used by all Cortex-M targets. This regression is also present in version 0.7.2 of the cortex-m-rt crate.
This regression can cause certain compiler optimizations (which assume the eight-byte alignment) to produce incorrect behavior at runtime. This incorrect behavior has been observed in real-world applications.
It is advised that ALL users of v0.7.1 and v0.7.2 of the cortex-m-rt crate update to the latest version (v0.7.3), AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Users of v0.7.0 and prior versions of cortex-m-rt are not affected by this regression.
It will be necessary to rebuild all affected firmware binaries, and flash or deploy the new firmware binaries to affected devices.
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Version 0.7.1 of the
cortex-m-rtcrate introduced a regression causing the stack to NOT be eight-byte aligned prior to callingmain(or any other specified entrypoint), violating the stack ABI of AAPCS32, the default ABI used by all Cortex-M targets. This regression is also present in version 0.7.2 of thecortex-m-rtcrate.This regression can cause certain compiler optimizations (which assume the eight-byte alignment) to produce incorrect behavior at runtime. This incorrect behavior has been observed in real-world applications.
It is advised that ALL users of
v0.7.1andv0.7.2of thecortex-m-rtcrate update to the latest version (v0.7.3), AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Users ofv0.7.0and prior versions ofcortex-m-rtare not affected by this regression.It will be necessary to rebuild all affected firmware binaries, and flash or deploy the new firmware binaries to affected devices.
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