On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:48 PM, David VanHorn <d...@mobilefusioninc.com> wrote: > I thought I must be doing something fairly trivial wrong, this IS > only my second project in C...
Dave, I have two recommendations for a beginner at C. 1) Buy yourself a copy of Gimpel Lint, even if you have to pay for it out of your own pocket, it will be money well spent in the long run. http://www.gimpel.com/ . It will be the best C tutor you could have. When you run your first piece of code through it you will be appalled at the number errors it finds. Not because you are a beginner, tho that might help, it is because in C it is so easy to shoot yourself in the foot. Alas there are few alternative languages for dealing at the bare metal level. Also you can learn a lot just by reading Gimpel's Bug of the Month: http://www.gimpel.com/html/bugs.htm 2) Get yourself a copy of the MISRA guidelines: http://www.misra-c2.com/ Right now someone on the list is reading that and saying "Say what? Recommending MISRA to a new C Programmer?". Yes. Even if you don't try to write your code to MISRA, the explanation of the rules, ie. the landmines you don't want to step on will be beneficial to your C education. If you get truly and utterly stuck, I'm about 90 miles from you and can come down your way some weekend if you need any help. -- http://www.wearablesmartsensors.com/ http://www.softwaresafety.net/ http://www.designer-iii.com/ http://www.unusualresearch.com/ _______________________________________________ AVR-GCC-list mailing list AVR-GCC-list@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-gcc-list
