2 Oct
2007
2 Oct
'07
3:55 p.m.
On 2 Oct 2007 at 15:33, Brent Hilpert wrote:
Though IIRC, with a well-designed stack management
policy, the register
frames could overlap, so as long as one didn't use the registers in
overlapping memory you were fine. You were not obligated to grab a fresh 16
words of memory on every function call. Equivalent in more conventional archs
to deciding how many machine registers you're going to save based on usage on
a function call rather than saving them all without question.
Agreed. But 128 words still doesn't leave much room for variables
beyond those that can be stored in the registers of each frame.
There's a comment on one of the 99/4A sites that 1,024 bytes of RAM
were originally planned, which is more reasonable. I doubt that TI
saved very much by using the 256 byte part.
Cheers,
Chuck