[LLVMdev] LLVM and Interrupt Service Routines.

[Sanjiv Gupta]

Jakob Stoklund Olesen wrote:
> On 24/07/2009, at 19.41, <Alireza.Moshtaghi at microchip.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> As you know PIC16 does not have stack; so generating code for ISR and
>> all functions that it calls (including all stdlib and basic math
>> intrinsics used for mult/div/etc) requires special code generation
>> techniques. But we don't have this information until after llvm-ld has
>> merged all compilation units into one. Theoretically llvm-ld can also
>> correct the calling convention for the two classes of functions, but  
>> I'm
>> not sure about the practicality of it.
>>     
>
> What happens with functions that are called both inside and outside  
> ISR context? Do you have to codegen two copies of those?
>
>   
Yes. That's precisely what we are trying to achieve in llvm-ld.
But the problems don't end there, as llvm-ld doesn't have any idea of 
libcalls (they're generated in llc) and they could also be called from 
both places.

- Sanjiv

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