The problem would be stopping when you make it back to the top.

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From: pic microcontroller discussion list
[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Roman Black
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 03:30
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [PIC]: Stack Overflows


Bob Ammerman wrote:
>
> How the stack behaves on underflow/overflow depends on the particular
flavor
> of PIC.
>
> See your datasheet.
>
> Here are a couple examples:
>
> for the 16F87x (which has an 8 slot stack) the datasheet says:
>
> "The stack operates as a circular buffer. This means that
> after the stack has been PUSHed eight times, the ninth
> push overwrites the value that was stored from the first
> push. The tenth push overwrites the second push (and
> so on)."


Yep, I knew it was a circular stack, but when I read
your post a funny thought occured to me. Since the stack
is circular, you could call a function ANY amount of times,
and return the same amount of times, provided:
* It was originally called from the top level
* no ints or other functions were called.

This would give an option to do a recursive activity
a very large number of times??

Any opinions?? :o)
-Roman

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