Internal RAM exhausted

[crawfxrd]

Attempting to build branch usbc-mux-info for bonw15 results in:

  LINK      ec.ihx
?ASlink-Error-Could not get 11 consecutive bytes in internal RAM for area OSEG.
?ASlink-Error-Could not get 5 consecutive bytes in internal RAM for area OSEG.
make: *** [src/arch/8051/toolchain.mk:42: build/ec.ihx] Error 1

[crawfxrd]

Need to look at the memory map, but:

We already use large for the main app (which is suppose to put variables in XRAM to begin with), so a potential resolution may be to declare and use variables at fixed addressed (Ref: #36):

• declare loop indexes in idata and only use those?
  • ensure we only have ~4 total
  • not sure how SDCC manages these; might already try something like this?
• explicitly move data to xdata?
  • not sure how this works with scratch ROM usage and registers

Some other thoughts:

• Check if SDCC 4.4.0 (Add Containerfile for development #418) alleviates the issue, since it has generalized constant propagation
  • Reduces code size by ~600 bytes without any changes, but does not appear to affect RAM allocation
• Replace bools with bits?
• (re)declare functions with __reentrant so variables are placed on the stack rather than be statically assigned?
• move logic (complexity) to system firmware (RFC: Configure EC from system firmware firmware-open#571)