Newbie: Need to set initial stack pointer at a specific addr

Zvoc47 · Joined: 02 Apr 2015 Posts: 21

Hello, I just bought BASCOM-AVR so I can program ATXMEGA128A1.
I've read about the hardware stack, software stack and the frame.
What bothers me is how do I set that the CPU stack pointer isn't at 0x3FFF which is the end of SRAM, but 0x2FFF.
I don't want to do this manually like writing to the CPU SPL and SPH because I think that will overflow the software stack.
The reason why I'm putting the stack pointer at 0x2FFF is because there will be a user program that my debugging program will load with stack pointer at 0x3FFF and it will be context switching like a little OS.

(BASCOM-AVR version : 2.0.7.8 )

albertsm · Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 4966 Location: Holland

the hardware stack pointer is always set to the last sram address.
you could change the RAMEND value in the dat file. that is the most simple solution.

Zvoc47 · Joined: 02 Apr 2015 Posts: 21

Thank you! RAMEND is exactly what I wanted Smile

But can I set the start position of compilation for example if I want to compile at 0x8000?

albertsm · Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 4966 Location: Holland

you mean you want the code to start at &H8000 ? you could use $loader. that is used for boot loaders.

Zvoc47 · Joined: 02 Apr 2015 Posts: 21

My program flash start: 0x000000
My program stack start: 0x2FFF (I don't want to set this in the DEF file because I'll get the out of bounds error for accessing above this)

User's program flash start: 0x008000
User's program stack start: 0x3FFF

My program uses RTC for context switching between these two programs.
I succeeded by using SPH=$2F.
However, I cannot read the stack pointer. Whenever I try to read and print, I get zeros.
Reading the stack pointer will be important so that the user can use the "cpu" command to print out all the registers to USART which are put into my array by context switching.