Re: Elementary assembly lang question...

[Ludis Langens <ludis@cruzers.com>]

Dale Klein wrote:
> 
>         Why / What is the function of line BCD7, branch if carry, _back to the
> same address_?  Is this a hole that the program gets stuck in until some
> interrupt digs it out?  The cop timer gets reset just before (BCB0 to
> BCB6), it wouldn't be waiting for the cop timer to go off, would it?  and
> then the t counter is compared with whatever is in memory 1986 (BCCD to
> BCD1), and then the bcc line I'm wondering about.
> 
> BCCB    18 3C                   pushY
> BCCD    18 FE 10 0E             ldY     l_100ef_hc11reg_tcnt
> BCD1    18 BC 19 86             cmpY    L1986
> BCD5    18 38                   popY
> BCD7    24 FE           LBCD7:  bcc     LBCD7

I'd say it's waiting for the ECM to get reset by the COP timer.  Older
C3's tend to have code something like this - ie a conditional branch to
itself.  Error conditions cause these infinite loops.  The C3's use this
to exit bench test mode - once the input forcing bech test is gone, the
program inifinite loops until the watchdog resets it.

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Ludis Langens                               ludis (at) cruzers (dot) com
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