Hi all,
I'm using 89C52 controller in my application. I'm using a 90 byte buffer to store received message from UART. Based on this received message I'm controlling I/O ports. The same buffer I'm using for transmitting the application dependent internal status message.
To identify the message I'm using absolute address position for example, if(arr[59] == '*'){do something;}
every first message after reset this is working fine. After that the control hangs somewhere thus its giving undetermined behavior.
I set the memory model as Large: all variables in XDATA.
I hope some address overflow is happening here.
Can anyone help me to resolve this issue.
Thanks in Advance.
Regards, Ramesh
I think there is some severe memory overflow/system stack overflow happens when we are using array of characters.
but how can you see so sure about this? many other issues can be the cause. did you try to strip your program of everything which is not absolutely necessary (as your problem can be triggered by an interaction of some kind)? does you controller finish handling a message in one polling cycle (if not, maybe you overwrite not-yet-processed data)? can you post clear and outlines code related to the problem?
Thanks.
Exactly,
I'm not using any synch mechanism here. Whatever message comes in Im receiving it and processing the message. Note that its loop of 35 characters. Im interseted only first 35 characters. after processing the message i'm transmitting the status.
I cant use any synch mechanism here because the message will vary every time its not in my control. I'm intersted in only first 35 chars in that i will searc for my command string is available or not with a encapsulation of special characters like @,#,$ etc.
Please suggest.
Thank you very much for your message.
Actually I'm using polling method of message reception not Interrupt method.
I have used two buffers of size arr[35] arr1[35] one for Txd and other for Rxd. There also same behavior.
In this method it was working when im keep on reciving the message that means i'm using only arr[35] buffer.
At the moment i started using the second buffer arr1[35] for transmitting. Its transmitting the message correctly and cpu hangs. only way i have to reset the controller.
Expecting some suggestions. Thanks.
It can work quite ok with a shared buffer, if the serial interrupt knows about framing characters in the received message, and can ignore reception of new characters until an answer has been sent, or until the main application has flagged that the received message is broken - in which case it might be good to design the protocol with a NACK message.
To do it without any synchronization can lead to very hard-to-catch problems.
The same buffer I'm using for transmitting the application dependent internal status message
This is dangerous. Can it be that you suffer from a race condition between receiving a command (interrupt based I guess) and sending your application status...? It would be better to associate these operation with different buffers.
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