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MESC TOOL NEWS: MESCT-NC79WA_2-990801D

NC79WA and NC77WA Precautions

Please take note of the following problem in using C compilers (with assembler and integrated development environment) NC79WA for the 7900 series and NC77WA for the 7700 series of microcomputers.


  1. Product Types and Versions Concerned

    • NC79WA (NC79): V.2.00 Release 1 to V.3.10 Release 2

    • NC77WA (NC77): V.3.00 Release 1 to V.5.10 Release 1


  2. Problem

    When an interrupt is generated during the execution of standard library function "longjmp", the stack environment established by standard library function "setjmp" may not be recovered.


  3. Workaround

    Disable any interrupt request during the execution of standard library function "longjmp".


  4. Example of C Source File

        ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
       |   #include <setjmp.h>
       |   jmp_buf ErrEnv;
       |
       |   void func(void)
       |   {
       |              :
       |           if(error condition){
       |                   asm( "        sei" );         <-- Set I flag
       |                   longjmp( ErrEnv, err_code );
       |                   asm( "        cli" );         <-- Clear I flag
       |           }
       |              :
       |   }
       |
        ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
    
  5. Schedule of Fixing Problem

    We plan to fix this problem in our next release such a way that any interrupt is disabled during the execution of standard library function "longjmp".





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