Saturday, December 8, 2007

[piclist] Re: Need Help Urgently - Mysterious Problem after adding Function

I am using the PIC16 instruction set to write the code, and I am even
commenting out the call to the function. The code was working fine
for days until I added the now Not called function.

--- In piclist@yahoogroups.com, "Jcullins" <james_cullins@...> wrote:
>
> sounds like you may have something declared as byte and using it as
word so
> it writes over the next memory location.
> Just a first guess
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roger_4U" <samelec@...>
> To: <piclist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 7:03 PM
> Subject: [piclist] Need Help Urgently - Mysterious Problem after adding
> Function
>
>
> > Hi Folks:
> >
> > I am up a creek, I have been working on some code for over a year and
> > I am totally stumped with this last problem:
> >
> > Device: Pic16F88
> > Chip OSC: 20Mhz
> > Programmer: MeLabs USB Programmer
> > Code is spread across two codepages. i.e Linker is being used.
> > Number of Software Modules: 4 [3 in CodePage0 and 1 in CodePage1]
> > Assembler/Complier: MPLAB IDE v8.00
> > Serial speed: 57.6Kbps
> >
> > My problem is that the circuit stops working properly once I add a new
> > sub-program (function) to CodePage0; and what is totally baffling is
> > that even if I comment out the call in the main program to this
> > function, the problem still persists. When I reduce the size of the
> > function by say 7 statements, the serial portion, a LED switch, and
> > the blinking LED, work as expected. However when I have all the code
> > present, everything seems to be still working except the serial part
> > of the circuit which starts sending out mixed up data.
> >
> > I have changed the chip, upgraded to the latest IDE, and still the
> > same problem.
> >
> > What is going on here? PLEASE HELP - I feel like jumping ship and
> > starting over from scratch with a different platform (e.g AVR).
> >
> >
> >
> >
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