Re: [avr-libc-dev] Can main be interrupt or signal?

[Paul Schlie]

> From: Björn Haase <address@hidden>
>>> From: Andy Hutchinson <address@hidden>
>>> 
>>> I'm just reviewing gcc prolog code.
>>> 
>>> Is it "legal" to allow or want  "main" to be an "interrupt" or "signal"
>>> functiom.
> IMHO it is not useful to declare main to carry the attribute signal or
> interrupt. The way interrupts work presently is to declare functions that
> carry the name __vector01 or similar. If functions with this name are
> declared, they override the weak symbols of the .crt object files that point
> to a default IRQ function.
> Since main is supposed to be named "main" one would need to violate gcc in
> order to make shure that main could be called by calling vectorXX().
> 
> IIUC you could safely assume that main does not carry the interrupt or signal
> attributes.

So how ideally could one define an arbitrary interrupt vector to invoke
main(), as doing a soft restart upon some particular event doesn't seem like
an unreasonable thing to want to do?