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Re: ARM ISR routines. [v2]


>  OK, I have been persuaded that we need to support using the frame
>  pointer inside interrupt handler functions, so he is the modified
>  patch.  The patch is the same as the last one except that now if the
>  frame pointer is needed (including the case twhen stack frames are
>  requested) the code will push the IP register before corrupting and
>  then pop it at the end of the function.

Is there any strong reason why you need to use IP to establish a frame pointer 
at all?  I.e. rather than

	mov ip, sp
	stmfd sp!, {r4, r5, fp, ip, lr, pc}
	sub fp, ip, #4

something more like

	stmfd sp!, {r4, r5, fp, ip, lr, pc}
	add fp, sp, #20

p.


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