Re: EGCS: Interrupt Support ?

[Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>]

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  > Since egcs is supposed to a better cross-compiler for embedded systems,
  > I was wondering whether the "interrupt" keyword or "#pragma interrupt"
  > is ever going to be supported.  I can not see any reason why it
  > shouldn't.  It would make life a lot easier than having to write
  > assembler level stubs.  It would also make writing portable code a lot
  > easier.
  > 
  > There may be reasons why interrupt support is not a good idea but I do
  > not know them.  If anyone can shed some light on this matter then I
  > would appreciate it.
There are interrupt attributes for some targets.  It's a feature that has to
be implemented for each target.  Thus some targets have support for it, others
do not.

We recommend against using pragmas.  attributes are a cleaner way to
accomplish what you are trying to do.

jeff