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  Re: Aborting from ISR
 
It works! (after countless crashes and firmwire reloads that is ... :) By modifying the saved Instruction Pointer to point to a memory area which in turn contains the address of an "abort word", on the next execution of a word (either inside a (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
 
  RE: Aborting from ISR
 
(...) Alex, I'll have a good look at this and then post an article. I have a funny feeling you're doing it the hard way, but that's because I know the insides of the patient better than you do - I am Dr Frankenforth after all! Oh, and sorry for the (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
 
  Re: Aborting from ISR
 
Hi, (...) Yup, that does what I want, although I can't remember enough about forth internals to work out why it works. But it does seem to depend on the return stack having a particular structure, so I do wonder - what happens if the interrupt (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
 
  Re: Aborting from ISR
 
(...) Hi, the nice thing in this solution is that it doesn't inspect or touch the user return stack at all. The structures that are used to get to the FIP (instruction pointer) - namely: the position of the saved D-stack in the *private* R-stack and (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)

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