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Re: PIC18F8722 Errata & High Priority Interrupts

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Originally Posted by Joe Ross
I wanted to make sure that people who are using a lot of interrupts see the following thread on the IFI forums: http://www.ifirobotics.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=498
Yeah, I've been staring at that errata entry for over a week now and trying to figure out which of the wacky things teams have been experiencing can be attributed to it. Basically, the fast register save functionality of the high-priority interrupt is completely hosed. Some people have noticed wacky things like joystick data getting swapped. Well, this bug could certainly cause some of the weird things some folks have seen. The good news is that the fast save functionality can be turned off. The bad news is that the high-priority ISR is buried in IFI's library and we'll need to get it re-compiled. Now that this problem has been "outed", I'll give IFI a call tomorrow and see if we can get the new library sooner rather than later.

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Originally Posted by Joe Ross
I was also curious if this was the bug that Kevin mentioned here: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...0&postcount=10
No, that's a completely different %$#&! bug that caused me a significant amount of grief for a few days. %$#&! buggy silicon.

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