DSP/BIOS Stack Questions

Note that Mariana, from TI, posted some pretty good answers to these
questions on the TI E2E forum:

  http://e2e.ti.com/support/embedded/f/355/t/48974.aspx

--Randy

Randy Yates <yates@ieee.org> writes:

>   a. The javascript bios.MEM object (in the .tcf file) has a "global
>   stack" that can be manipulated with bios.MEM.STACKSIZE and
>   bios.MEM.STACKSEG. What is the "global stack" used for?
>
>   b. Where does the C compiler stack get initialized prior to main()?
>
>   c. Tasks (and probably other threads) have their own stacks, but
>   what stack does DSP/BIOS use for it's own execution? For example,
>   inside a TSK_switch() call, there must be a "system" stack - where
>   does this stack reside and what sets its size?
>
>   d. From which heap or stack does DSP/BIOS take memory from for
>   dynamically-created objects, such as semaphores and tasks?
>
> This is DSP/BIOS 5.33.06 under CCS 3.3 SR 11.
>
> --Randy

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