Re: [Sdcc-user] recompiling sdcc libs and --xstack-loc issues

[Bernhard H. <ber...@be...>]

> From your reply I am assuming that this is probably a work in progress or
> has been
> shelved. :(
There was already a suggestion to remove --xstack But Sandeep himself told 
us, that he stills plans to fix it up. His posting is from 2001-11-02 ...

> (But the fact that a reference to a global called __page_no__ appeared in
> the map
> file when --xstack-loc was used made me feel that there was still hope, may
> I know
> what this global is for ?)
grep shows me, that it's defined in device/lib/_spx.c, but there's no further 
reference in the whole source.

> I would like to help with this. My domain is OS but if I could be given
> some pointers
> as to the code structure I would like to chip in to implement the
> "xstack-loc" feature
> as it would be very beneficial.
>
> From a cursory glance I find that the code for emitting asm code for
> various stack
> related operations is in gen.c but anything beyond this was, well, beyond
> me.
Any contribution to sdcc is welcome. Download the source and start digging. 
That's the way all sdcc-developers started.

Bernhard