gnupic: Any way to address the stack?
Subject:
Re: Any way to address the stack?
From:
Snail Instruments ####@####.####
Date:
8 Nov 2004 07:42:40 +0000
Message-Id: <6.1.2.0.0.20041108083345.03bef760@pop.iol.cz>
>Is there any way to access the hardware return stack on PIC 16F873A?
>
>In other words, to get the value of the current stack pointer, as well as
>read (and possibly also write) the contents of the 8 stack levels themselves?
No.
>I ask, because I'm looking at ways of implementing a software call/return
>stack, and thus eliminating the ceiling of 8 call levels.
Just a suggestion - if your application _really_ needs more then 8 levels
of nested calls, use PIC18F442, pin compatible, but with 31 level stack.
And software accessible on top of it.
Josef
