8XC196MC, MD, MH USER’S MANUAL

To use these registers effectively, you must have some overall strategy for allocating them. The C programming language adopts a simple, effective strategy. It allocates the eight bytes beginning at address 1CH as temporary storage and treats the remaining area in the register file as a segment of memory that is allocated as required.

NOTE

Using any SFR as a base or index register for indirect or indexed operations can cause unpredictable results because external events can change the contents of SFRs. Also, because some SFRs are cleared when read, consider the implications of using an SFR as an operand in a read-modify-write instruction (e.g., XORB).

3.4.2Addressing 32-bit Operands

The 32-bit operands (DOUBLE-WORDs and LONG-INTEGERs) are formed by two adjacent 16-bit words in memory. The least-significant word of a DOUBLE-WORD is always in the lower address, even when the data is in the stack (which means that the most-significant word must be pushed into the stack first). The address of a 32-bit operand is that of its least-significant byte.

The hardware supports the 32-bit data types as operands in shift operations, as dividends of 32- by-16 divide operations, and as products of 16-by-16 multiply operations. For these operations, the 32-bit operand must reside in the lower register file and must be aligned at an address that is evenly divisible by four.

3.4.3Linking Subroutines

Parameters are passed to subroutines via the stack. Parameters are pushed into the stack from the rightmost parameter to the left. The 8-bit parameters are pushed into the stack with the high-order byte undefined. The 32-bit parameters are pushed into the stack as two 16-bit values; the most- significant half of the parameter is pushed into the stack first. As an example, consider the fol- lowing procedure:

void example_procedure (char param1, long param2, int param3);

When this procedure executes at run-time, the stack will contain the parameters in the following order:

param3

low word of param2

high word of param2

undefined;param1

 

return address

Stack Pointer

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