But embedded developers need to know what happens before that ... For example, the ARM Cortex-M CPU is hardwired to load the Main Stack Pointer (the SP register) from address 0x0 and the Program ...

Embedded systems ... in critical systems. Below are some examples: Writing to a file stream opened as read-only can lead to potentially undesirable behavior. Using functions that call themselves ...

In the last lesson, you encountered the concept of a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS), and you worked out a manual ... be coded in standard C because it needs to manipulate the Stack Pointer (SP) as ...

old_esp"); //Move the current stack pointer into old_sp<BR> old_task.stack_ptr = old_sp; //save the stack pointer into the old process structure<BR> new_sp = *new_task.stack_ptr; //Read the new ...

With STOP enabled, the compiler adds a call to a stack limit-check routine wherever necessary, before adjusting the stack pointer. The STOP option for ... can cause all kinds of failures in an ...