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How does the call stack operated during an interrupt on AVR?
(Specific to the Arduino Uno...)
What happens to the stack when an interrupt occurs on an AVR microcontroller and I call a function? Does the compiler inline the code? Does it cache the stack ...
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Using the arduino toolchain as a convenent way to get GCC - Can you disable the code-munging?
I've been using the Arduino toolchain as a extremely convenient way to get a complete GCC toolchain and build-system with basically zero effort a lot recently.
However, I'm currently working on some ...
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How different is the Arduino language than Atmel Studio language? [closed]
I see that on the official Arduino website, the reference page contains the functions and vales you would use specified to the Arduino compiler.
http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/HomePage
What would ...
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Memory management problems with ATTiny85
The setup is as follows:
I have a little program to drive single color 8x8 led matrix using 595 shift registers that are supplied with data by ATTiny85 through USI as SPI Master. I upload program to ...
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How to discover memory overflow errors in the Arduino C code?
Several times I had some suspicious outputs on the Serial Monitor after uploading code to the Arduino: like eternal output of whitespaces or suddenly cut of strings or scrambled strings.
Because ...
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If YOU were starting out now, what PIC16F-compatible IDE and compiler would you choose, and why?
This is going to be a bit long as I wanted to cover all the obvious questions before they arise, give a rationale to some of my thinking, and prove I've done my groundwork! If time is short, skip down ...
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Adding a global int corrupts compiled code
I have a strange issue. I want to either increment a value every time the loop function is called or us a random value each time. Whether I use a global int for incrementing or set a local int to a ...
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Easiest way to get rid of __clz_tab in winavr compiled code?
I've ported a program from the arduino environment to a makefile build using winavr, which, in turn, is based on avr-gcc (just like arduino).
However, my program started crashing, and after some ...
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How does the Arduino IDE/build system work?
How does the Arduino IDE/build system work?
I noticed that they use the avr-gcc in the background,
but what do they do on top?
They seem to have their own "kind of C" language that transforms into ...
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Programming for the Arduino without the Arduino IDE.. but with the provided libraries?
I recently started a new project using my Arduino that's been collecting dust for a while. Along with the physical board collecting dust, so has my copy of avr-gcc and the Arduino libraries. I can ...
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