Re: [Sdcc-user] Automatic Bank Allocation for mcs51 model-huge

[Dave M. <mc...@ne...>]

On 10/27/2011 07:21 AM, George Oikonomou wrote:
> I've been toying with this idea for a while and I found time and played
> around a bit the last couple of days. The principle here is that with
> model huge, most source files can be allocated to any code segment. The
> reasoning is that with a 'large' project, manual bank assignment
> requires a fair bit of maintenance and, for the not-so-experienced user,
> can lead to bank overflows and 'why on earth is my device crashing all
> the time?' moments.
> What I've done with contiki for cc2430 is, I've written a script which
> gets invoked by the build system. Things work like this:
...

   I think this is a fantastic idea.  The next step might be inter-bank 
call analyses to add a "placement weight" (or something like that) to 
optimize function destination segments for performance over size, or 
vice-versa.

              -Dave

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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA