AVR-Chat

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 06:22:39PM -0000, brewski922 wrote:
> My favorite C compiler for Atmel AVRs is CodeVisionAVR. One of the 
> big things I like about CV is the CodeWizard.

One of the things I DON'T like about any embedded development system is
hidden magical wizards and libraries. While it could make things easier,
too often it only makes things harder.

For example I posted earlier this week here or elsewhere my ee_writes()
routine. Originally wrote my own without thinking to look in avr-libc. I
desired control over variable usage and IRQ. Later looked in avr-libc
and found that routine would have been acceptable but mine was in C and
only 2 oe 4 bytes larger. Mine stayed.

I feel the same way about printf() and malloc(). As a general rule they
have no place in the projects I undertake.

Will shortly be importing an 802.15.4 MAC layer in a project. Suspect
many of my biases will have to be thrown out the window to accommodate
that mass of foreign code. Will be P.O.'ed if I find printf() in it.

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.