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division by zero

Laurent Bovet

Hi all,

Does anybody know what does the system do when a division by zero occurs?

We are running RTX 51 ful kernel on Philips' 80c51, 80c552 and 80c660 controllers.

Thanks,

Laurent.

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  • 0 in reply to Walt Conley

    Walt,

    Yeah... In my opinion, the use of the word microcontroller has been muddied a bit to include anything that includes some built-in "peripherals." For instance, Motorola/Freescale dub the 68340 a microcontroller, but I think most people would have put that one squarely in the processor category. I think it just comes down to the 8051 being an architecture designed for simplicity.

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  • 0 in reply to Walt Conley

    Walt,

    Yeah... In my opinion, the use of the word microcontroller has been muddied a bit to include anything that includes some built-in "peripherals." For instance, Motorola/Freescale dub the 68340 a microcontroller, but I think most people would have put that one squarely in the processor category. I think it just comes down to the 8051 being an architecture designed for simplicity.

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  • 0 in reply to Jay Daniel

    "In my opinion, the use of the word microcontroller has been muddied..."

    I don't know that there was ever a hard-and-fast distinction between "controller" and "processor."

    These days, I believe that Intel refer to the '386 as a "microcontroller" - that's just their view of market segmentation, rather than any specific architectural or functional distinction!