picolibc-1.1

Thu, 14 Nov 2019 22:39:04 -0800
tags/picolibc, tags/sifive

Picolibc Version 1.1

Picolibc development is settling down at last. With the addition of a simple 'hello world' demo app, it seems like a good time to stamp the current code as 'version 1.1'.

Changes since Version 1.0

Semihosting helper library. Semihosting lets an application running under a debugger or emulator communicate through the debugger or emulator with the environment hosting those. It's great for platform bringup before you've got clocking and a serial driver. I'm hoping it will also make running tests under qemu possible. The code works on ARM and RISC-V systems and offers console I/O and exit() support (under qemu).

Hello World example. This is a stand-alone bit of code with a Makefile that demonstrates how to build a complete application for both RISC-V and ARM embedded systems using picolibc after it has been installed. The executables run under QEMU using a provided script. Here's all the source code you need; the rest of the code (including semihosting support) is provided by picolibc:

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

int main(void) { printf("hello, world\n"); exit(0); }

POSIX file I/O support. For systems which have open/close/read/write, picolibc's tinystdio can now provide stdio functions that use them, including fopen and fdopen.

Updated code from newlib. I've merged current upstream newlib into the tree. There were a few useful changes there, including libm stubs for fenv on hosts that don't provide their own.

Where To Get Bits

You can find picolibc on my personal server's git repository:

https://keithp.com/cgit/picolibc.git/

There's also a copy on github:

https://github.com/keith-packard/picolibc

If you like tarballs, I also create those:

https://keithp.com/picolibc/dist/

I've create tags for 1.1 (upstream) and 1.1-1 (debian packaging included) and pushed those to the git repositories.

Filing Issues, Making Contributions

There's a mailing list at keithp.com:

https://keithp.com/mailman/listinfo/picolibc

Or you can file issues using the github tracker.