Re: [cc65] Relocating the stack?

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Ullrich von Bassewitz <uz@musoftware.de>wrote:

>
> Good morning!
>
> On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 08:01:39PM -0500, Payton Byrd wrote:
> > I'm trying to squeeze some more memory out of the 32k expanded VIC-20.
>  The
> > memory config provided in the cc65 distribution leaves 8k of RAM
> unmolested
> > at $A000 to $BFFF.  I would like to relocate the STACK and HEAP to this
> > memory so I can place more code in banks 1, 2, and 3.  After reading the
> > ld65 docs I don't understand how I could accomplish this.  Can anyone
> help
> > with this task?
>
> Shawn is right here, the simplest way to relocate the stack is to supply a
> changed startup module. Just have a look at the one that is part of the
> source
> distribution. It should be easy to locate the place where the stack is
> initialized.
>
> To relocate the heap, you can either include <_heap.h> and set the
> variables
> _heaporg and _heapptr to the start of the heap memory and _heapend to the
> end
> (you will have to do this *before* accessing the heap). You can also supply
> a
> changed _heap module (see the one from the library, it's pretty short).
>
> The existing heap module will intialize the end of the heap to the start of
> the
> stack. Depending on where the new stack location is, this may or may not
> make
> sense.
>

I didn't know about the _heap.h trick.  I'll give that a shot first and see
if that frees up enough RAM for me.

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