In the process of tracking down an errant hang, I’ve gotten myself to a point where I can reproduce a hard fault within ~5 minutes of run time, but the hard fault state makes no sense to me. Looking for some help in understanding what I am seeing… Project is based on an LPC1517 cortex-m3/ FreeRTOS…

I think the app design sounds good. Nothing stands out to me as problematic from a FreeRTOS standpoint. Since the MSP is manipulated any time it’s the active stack pointer, then any kind of context corruption or main stack corruption could cause MSP to receive an invalid value. Your description te…

Hardfault with corrupt/strange MSP

Kernel

blondguy (Alan Nilsson) October 30, 2020, 9:03pm 3

Isolated this to a smaller project and posted that up in a new thread here: https://forums.freertos.org/t/xqueuereceive-failing-with-corruption/11022

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Hardfault with corrupt/strange MSP

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