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15 years ago

Modifying EPCS bootloader

Skip to tl;dr at the bottom if so inclined. Background and such is there to cover some possible questions. background: (Developing in Q10.1) I am developing a project with two separate fir...
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15 years ago

I only just failed to get gcc to compile C without any reference to a stack. Quite possibly I could have modified the code generator to not write the function prologue (that saves registers) for functions that are known to not return.

I did think of doing that - as it would free up %sp for use as a general register!