Re: [avr-chat] re-entrant functions

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Wednesday 01 February 2006 17:35, Stumpf Michael wrote:
> :Just because registers are used for parameter passing, doesn't make a
> :function any less re-entrant. To be re-entrant, just don't
> :store persistant
> :state in the function such as with static variables.
>
> It is compiler dependent.
>
> I remember the Keil C51 compiler to generate non-reentrant code,
> because lacal variables were stored in fixed memory locations
> rather than on the stack. To make a function reentrant a special keyword
> 'reentrant' had to be applied to it.

That would make that compiler a compiler for a language other than C :)

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