Different value to clear initial register area

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Different value to clear initial register area

Postby steved » Mon Jan 13, 2020 9:44 am

This relates to the option to initialise stack areas. I hope I've correctly understood how Chibi works.
When a new thread is started, the registers appear to be loaded from the stack area, so all contain the stack initialisation value.
A fair number of registers are rarely used (if ever), so the stack initialisation value appears quite frequently between top of stack and lowest used location.
For speed, I use a binary search to establish available stack space, and that gets confused!
Would it be possible to initialise the top n bytes of the stack with a different value to avoid this problem?

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