At 11:57 AM 17/02/1997 -0400, you wrote:
>At 05:50 PM 17/2/97 -0600, you wrote:
>> What about just a GOTO to address 00 ?  This will restart the code as if
>>a power-on reset occurred.  In your initilization routine, you will have
>>to set all the flags and options to known states.  But, I do not see why
>>it would not work.  Have I overlooked something?
>>
>> ---- Steve
>
>GOTO 00 is not same as (COLD)reset. It depends on application program
>what happends by GOTO 00, if the program expect to be running after
>reset, ie expect some re-gisters have "reset" value, then GOTO 00
>might just hang your program.
>
>antti
Personally I have never considered it wise to rely on what state the
hardware might be in after a cold start.  I believe robust programming means
initializing every thing to the state you want it right after power up and
before you use those peripherals.

So having said that I would jump t a routine that would a) disable all
interrupts if your flavour of the PIC has them and b) GOTO zero.  If that
hangs your program you probably deserve it. <grin>

John
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