[sdiy] My latest project

[Neil Johnson]

Hi,

cheater cheater wrote:
> Dereferencing pointers is different from modifying the code in that it
> frees up your stack/registers.

dsPICs, like most other smaller microcontrollers, and flash based,  
and maybe Harvard as well, so self-modifying code is pretty much a no- 
no in this situation (unless you have a *LONG* time to wait for the  
flash sector to erase before reprogramming it, not mentioning the  
flash wear issue).

Shame it doesn't have conditional execution a la ARM.

Writing code with no if's is very tedious and very sensitive to  
design changes and bugfixes.  Have you looked at a round-robin  
schedule sitting on a timer?  As long as your longest execution path  
is less than the cycle time it'll look after itself.

Neil
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