Re: [Simulavr-devel] Settings for stackpointer

[Klaus]

Hi Thomas,

> be relaxed ... :-) Controller with 3 level stack instead of a real stack
> pointer are obsolete.

Yes, you can't buy them anymore. But there are maybe some people which 
have some devices "on stack" :-) I also have some at90s1200 and maybe 
someday I will use them... maybe also not, I don't know.

> But, we haven't this parts in simulavr!

??? I know that I myself wrote a 3 byte hw stack implementation and I 
believe that this was? in the source. So I see no reason why we should 
remove working code. There is nothing to maintain I believe.

So I simply want to ask to not change things again without any need. If 
something disturbs new features, we should talk before the new features 
break the old.

BTW: Can we start to develop new features on branches and merge later on 
the master? It is much easier to play around with the code base if we 
can go to an older version, merge some branches in and get the things to 
work. Cherry picking of single commits is not as easy I believe. :-)

I especially ask for that, because I want to create my own branch where 
I will get the old tcl interface and the old tracing stuff to work 
again. tcl and tracing are broken so I need some changes which maybe not 
for customer satisfaction. But I can't use the current simulavr for that 
features. Also the testcode written in TCL and the examples is 
unreadable for me. I don't know what was the reason for that changes. So 
I will create my own working branch in a few weeks or more. And if so, 
it is easier to get new features with merging branches and not by cherry 
picking unordered commits. I also need the decoded instructions in the 
more or less old version to have the trace info which was dropped from 
the current source.

And yes, it would be nice if we get some lines of documentation on new 
code. I already asked you :-) Do you have written some lines for your 
new pin/port extensions? :-)

Regards
 Klaus