AW: [avr-gcc-list] reading program counter

[Stumpf Michael]

Hi,
>
> How can I read the program counter in a u16 variable?
> I have read the d.s but haven't found the PC address where
> its value is
> stored.

You can't , the PC isn't part of the io registers.
But you can do a call/rcall to a simple return and get it from the stack:

         IN    ZH,SPH
         IN    ZL,SPL                     
         SBIW  ZL,2       ;
         RCALL doRET      ; push low(adr); push high(adr)
adr:     LDD   R17,Z+1    ; get low(PC)
         LDD   R16,Z+2    ; get high(PC)

doRET:   RET

obviously you can do all the work at the doRET function without
clobbering the Z register:

         RCALL doRET      ; push low(adr); push high(adr)
adr:    

doRET:  
         POP   R17        ; pop the desired address, high byte first 
         POP   R16        ; low byte
         PUSH  R16
         PUSH  R17
         RET

all this is valid for devices with 16 bit pc at max.

regards
>
> I want to do this because my code is locking up somewhere and
> if I know the
> last
> PC address I can see the line of code it is doing this on.
>
> cheers,
> Jamie Morken
>
>
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>