On 2011-06-01, at 11:55 AM, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

>> That is what I assumed from what had been said.
>> At startup it would be easy [tm] to fill the stack with return
>> addresses that all went to the same place.
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> That is possible, am curious how many piclisters can figure out how to=20
> do that.

It's not the filling it so much, although that is a 'fun' easy [tm] part, b=
ut then being able to detect the erroneous execution rather than the fillin=
g.=20

>> A timer can haul the system
>> back into control and note can be made of how many locations returned

Which is how I have done it on bigger systems with tasks, multiple stacks e=
tc as part of a full diagnostics and in one system, recovery whilst still p=
reserving minimal operation during recovery (which was coded and tested but=
 never actual got used in service).=20


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