;; ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ;; heap.s — Sprinter heap definition. Replaces SDCC's z80.lib heap.rel ;; with a DYNAMIC heap that auto-sizes to whatever space is left between ;; end-of-BSS and a fixed upper bound near the top of W2. ;; ;; Old design reserved a fixed `.ds 14000` after BSS, which overflowed ;; the stack at 0xBFFE in tiny mode and crashed once allocations crossed ;; that boundary. Even a static 8 KB would fail once CODE+DATA grew. ;; ;; New design: ;; ___sdcc_heap = label at start of _HEAP area (= end of _BSS, ;; placed by the linker) ;; ___sdcc_heap_end = absolute equate at HEAP_TOP (= 0xBB00 default). ;; malloc uses `&___sdcc_heap_end` as the upper ;; bound of the free list. ;; ;; Heap size = HEAP_TOP - end_of_BSS. Grows when code shrinks, shrinks ;; when code grows. Falls to 0 (malloc returns NULL) if BSS grows past ;; HEAP_TOP — safe, no crash. ;; ;; The gap (BSS_end..HEAP_TOP) is real RAM that simply isn't tracked by ;; the linker — it doesn't need to be, since nothing else is placed in ;; that range (the area-ordering in crt0.s ends with _HEAP). ;; ;; Reserve 0xBB00..0xBFFE (= 1278 bytes) for the stack — enough for ;; deep printf and most recursion. Override with -DHEAP_TOP=0xNNNN. ;; ---------------------------------------------------------------------- .module sprinter_heap .globl ___sdcc_heap_init ;; NOTE: ___sdcc_heap_end is defined in crt0.s (per-program crt0). ;; We need it as an absolute equate (since malloc takes &symbol), ;; and the value must be configurable per program via -DHEAP_TOP=N ;; (or its derivative --stack-size). Putting it in crt0 means the ;; library can stay HEAP_TOP-agnostic. ;; gsinit hook — calls into z80.lib's malloc.rel to wire up the ;; free-list at startup (after _BSS is zeroed). .area _GSINIT call ___sdcc_heap_init ;; Heap start label — _HEAP follows _BSS in the area-ordering chain, ;; so ___sdcc_heap = first byte after BSS. No bytes reserved here; ;; the heap memory is the gap to HEAP_TOP (defined in crt0). .area _HEAP ___sdcc_heap::