Re: [avr-gcc-list] Not naked but "topless" functions?

[Kang Tin LAI]

> > There is nothing wrong with this prolog.  The CLI clears the interrupt
> > enable flag.  When the OUT instruction restores the flag by restoring SREG,
> > I still use the "naked" attribute in my RTOS, but I have the restriction
> > that you can't have more than 8 bytes of automatic variables in the top
> > level routine (GCC allocates registers, then stack frame variables).
> > Fortunately, GCC is so fantastic about register recycling, I can often get
> > 10-12 bytes worth of automatics before the compiler needs to resort to the
> > frame.  Unfortunately, I have to inspect the resulting assembly all the
> > time to make sure modifying the code didn't introduce frame variables
> > which, of course, would break.
> 
> Only 8? Once I tested how many register variables I can have, and when I used
> 30 of them, compiler put only 5 of them on the stack!? When I used 20, none
> was on the stack. Is there an fixed number of available registers? Some are
> reserved like r0,r1. All other registers are free or not?
> 


It is depended on what type of local vars, for example:

char a, b, c, d;

If in your function, no "address" operation, such as &a; then all vars should be
hold by register, another case, in your function, a function call for example,
takes a address of a vars as argument:

swap(&a, &b);

then a and b will be allocated in the stack.

I believe that number of register allocated for local vars is not a concern.

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