Re: [sdcc-devel] SDCC stm8 debug info

[Åke R. <ake...@gm...>]

On 2017-05-10 22:49, Philipp Klaus Krause wrote:
> Am 10.05.2017 um 22:16 schrieb Åke Rehnman:
>>
>> So to make debugging work with CFA the first job would be to clean up
>> the code and move the stack operations into a few well defined places
>> similar to hc08. Since that work involves a lot of changes I was a bit
>> hesitant to make those changes since that would result in quite
>> difficult merges whenever the stm8 gen code change.
>>
>> /Ake
> I assume that changing the push / pop behaviour in stm8 codegen would
> come at a price in code size, speed and memory usage. I don't think that
> is acceptable for SDCC users.
>
> Any alternatives?
>
> Philipp
>
No what I mean is those places in gen.c where registers are pushed and 
popped should use a function call to pushReg() and popReg() in the same 
way hc08 gen does. That way we don't have to litter the code with 
updateCFA() calls....

/Ake