At 11:56 AM 7/14/2003 +0300, you wrote:
>I thought that I could use the WDT to prevent the chip going to
>neverland.  When it is not cleared the chip restarts, and if I don't loose
>the varaibles values, then I can go back to where the last wdt_clear was
>and then continue.
>
>I would need this feature for units for industrial purposes where the
>units may be subject to all kinds of external distrurbance.  I think that
>this could be done with assembler, but with C I don't know.  At the start
>of the program I will have to check if it is wdt timer restart, then check
>couple of variables to verify indeed the variables have not been changed,
>then it should jump to the start of the last wdt_clear loop.  How would I
>do that in C?

Look at the source of your startup code to see exactly what's going on.

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