AVR-Chat

kernels_nz wrote:
> I can only agree with REB, I find Codevision VERY good, and no, ive
> never tried to compile structs, enums or unions that are local to
> functions. All the code examples you showed will compile fine when
> making those statements global.
> 
> Ive also not met many "real world" programmers that are too concerned
> with enums or unions, structs I use a bit just to tidy up code. I
> guess were all C-Noobs. Luckily we can make "real world" product work
> reliably even when our compiler is so terrible that it can even deal
> with a local union.
> 
> hahaha whatever.

It is unbelievable how anyone can accept that from something that calls
itself a C compiler.

Such a "feature" is bone-headedly easy to put into a compiler that it
should've been there from the start. I've written a few compiler-like
programs and compiler generator tools.

I reported these problems multiple times when i had the full licence.

Apart from having to remember these stupid limitations, it makes a shitload
of unneccessary work to port a significant amount of code from other compilers.


> --- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, "Roy E. Burrage" <RBurrage@...> wrote:
>> It could be, Russell, that the rest of us didn't want to get involved 
>> with this silliness.  Just because a program will not compile one 
>> project doesn't mean that it won't do a passable, even an exemplary, job 
>> for most of what an individual wants to do.  However, that being stated, 
>> I don't use anything but assembler on a microcontroller and none of my 
>> projects are very complex, being just data acquisition, control and test 
>> automation.
>>
>> I also use Windows and in something on the order of 6 years of using XP, 
>> it's only locked up on me 1 time...and that was when a virus got in the 
>> system.
>>
>> Stop trying to pick a fight or start an argument.