AVR-Chat

On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 05:57:59PM -0000, Leon Heller wrote:

"Which compiler?

It looks like the ANSI C you are using isn't liked by your compiler. Try 
using old-fashioned K&R C."

Yikes no! That would make things worse. From item 12 on
WWW.computing.DCU.Ie/~cdaly/projects/ :
"C++ Program checker
Java had a number of small improvements to C++ (as well as a number of 
big ones). These include

a. Insisting that a boolean value or expression be used in a conditional 
test e.g. if(x) becomes if(x != 0). 
b. The comma operator has been removed, so you can't write the compile 
nonsense while(i=0, i<10, i++). 
c. You cannot use uninitialised variables. 
Write a Java program that parses a C++ program and identifies if it 
breaks any of the above rules."

Though Charlie Daly was specifically talking about C++ there, everything 
in that quotation applies equivalently to C89 and K&R C. Can you actually 
think of any time K & R C would be a good choice if C89 or C99 are 
available for the same target?

Regards,
Colin Paul