[fpc-devel] AVR HeapSize and StackSize

Florian Klämpfl florian at freepascal.org
Sat Mar 23 20:37:14 CET 2019


Am 23.03.2019 um 11:52 schrieb Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis via fpc-devel:
> Hi,
> 
>   I'm using the heapmgr unit and, for the atmega328p, AFAIU the default heap size is 80 bytes. Cause it's too small for
> my needs, I changed to 512 bytes ( -Ch512 ). But now I'm worrying for the stack and heap collision.
> 
>   Can anybody know any resources, docs regarding FPC stack and heap management for the AVR platform ? Any hints, tools ?

The sources ;) For the embedded targets, the stack grows downward from the highest ram address. So set a suitable stack
size so you do not exceed total memory, test with stack checking on, then you should be fine.




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