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Bit shifting causing intermittent bit corruption #29

Open sdhunna21 opened 1 year ago

sdhunna21 commented 1 year ago

https://github.com/trinamic/TMC-API/blob/3da0cec86d2f14c3f1b6f29950df6fe2cc41624b/tmc/ic/TMC5160/TMC5160.c#L53

Sometimes when reading a spi value the upper 16 bits are all 1's. I noticed this line of code and changed it like so and the problem was resolved.

Shifting bits with types smaller than the shift can cause undefined behavour. At least on our processor, the msp430 it needs this fix.

    uint32_t v[5] = {0};
    for (uint32_t i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
        v[i] = data[i];
    }

    uint32_t value = (v[1] << 24) | (v[2] << 16) | (v[3] << 8) | (v[4]);
    return value;
fleutot commented 9 months ago

Good catch!

You could also skip the uint32_t array, and the hard-coded shift sizes (untested):

uint32_t value = 0;
for (int i = 5 - 1; i >= 1; i--) {
    value <<= 8;
    value |= data[i];
}
return value;