[En-Nut-Discussion] Watchdog Debugging

[Nathan Moore]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Harald Kipp <harald.kipp at egnite.de> wrote:

> Nathan Moore wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Harald Kipp <harald.kipp at egnite.de>
> wrote:
> >> GNU AVR linker option --defsym,__stack=0x10FF
> >> GNU ARM linker script section MEMORY (reducing the len parameter of the
> >> ram)
> >
> >
> > Wouldn't changing the upper limit in the configurator result in this
> being
> > done?
>
> Until today the Configurator modifies a few compiler/linker options
> only, mainly compiler option -D.
>
> On GNU AVR the standard linker scripts are used, which will set the
> stack pointer to the end of internal RAM by default.


Ok, we were using the end of external RAM on AVR with GCC.
It did turn out that the problem I was looking for also had it's way with
RAM before killing the
board, so it's likely that that is what caused that area of RAM to be
overwritten.

Nathan