I wrote some device drivers for an ARM board at one point.  Along the way I had to fix the basic interrupt handling code.  It handled interrupts on any channel than channel 0 - guess which one our hardware guys used!!!  Eventually, I made channel 0 a special case and let the existing code handle all other interrupts.

I can see why programmers write such foul stuff.  You really have to love programming to do embedded stuff 'cause when it does not work all you can see is a board that locks up and its really frustrating to debug.

On 10/5/06, Gustin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
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Trying to find (and in their case fix) bugs because of bad hardware is
not fun.  I don't write a lot of code, but at 4am after trying to get
crappy hardware working (effing Broadcomm wireless division), I usually
spew stronger language than this :)

Roy Souther wrote:
> Programmers are strange creatures, or so I am called.
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> The comments that programmer put in their code are to help people figure
> out why things are. Some programmers use the comments for other things.
>
> The programmers of the Linux kernel have some interesting things to say
> about their work, and each other.
> This link contains bad language and some very funny comments.
>
> http://zenux.net/linux/potty_mouth.txt
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> _www.SiliconTao.com <http://www.SiliconTao.com >_
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