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megous on Oct 29, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Linux Kernel Is Now VLA (Variable-Length Array...

Not all C programs have stack ether. Say Micochip's XC8 compiler for pic14 family.

rbanffy on Oct 29, 2018 [–]

That has to be "fun" to work with...

megous on Oct 30, 2018 | [–]

You just can't recurse and the same function can't be called from isr and from main context at the same time. Basically, nothing is re-entrable. Otherwise it's quite fine. To be sure, you shouldn't be doing those things anyway if you have 64B of RAM and 512 words or ROM. :D

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