RE: [avr-gcc-list] Pre-prologue and post-epilogue asm code insertion?

[Weddington, Eric]

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> Subject: [avr-gcc-list] Pre-prologue and post-epilogue asm 
> code insertion?
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> Hi all,
> 
> Is there an easy way to insert a few lines of asm code in an
> ISR before the prologue starts (at the ISR entry) and then
> some additional code after the epilogue (right before the
> RETI)?
> 
> There are a couple of reasons why I'm trying to do this:
> 
> 1) To insert some pin toggling instructions so I can more
>    accurately track time spent in various ISRs (including
>    the register save/restores).
> 
> 2) To switch to a different stack for some stack-hungry ISRs
>    so that I don't have to reserve as much memory in each
>    task's stack area when running a preemptive RTOS.
> 
> I've been doing it for a few test scenarios by compiling to
> assembler and then manually inserting code in the generated
> asm, but it's pretty cumbersome.  And I don't want to
> declare the ISRs as naked since I still want to the compiler
> to automatically generate the register save/restore code.
> 

About the only way to do this that I know of, is to declare the ISRs as naked, 
but then you have to write the pro/epi-logue yourself. But you already know 
this.