Lpc2000

At 10:38 PM 3/25/2006 +0000, heedaf wrote:
>In the following sample code does anyone know what tS8 (tS8 retCode
>= 0;) do/mean?  It is contained in a .h file.
>
>
>tS8
>i2cWrite(tU8  addr,
>          tU8  extraCmd,
>          tU16 extra,
>          tU8* pData,
>          tU16 len)
>{
>   tS8 retCode = 0;

retCode id declared as type tS8 and initialized to 0.  tS8 will defined 
elsewhere At a guess (and only a guess), it's meant to be a mnemonic for 
"type signed 8 bits".  It would probably have been a lot better just to use 
int.

Robert

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