Grant,
I can see that on this forum and the ones on SparkFun there are questions
asked which flag the writer as a novice. But we all started programming
at one time. For me that was in the early 1960s and the programmers
weren't particularly helpful. In fact they told me that engineers
couldn't learn to program and I should just give it up.
Aside from that, it takes about as long to be helpful as not. Just a tip
about where to start looking for an answer is always appreciated.
A healthy respect for gcc and gdb is good -- I've never found a bug in gcc
but I did spend about three weeks tracking a problem that turned out to be
an artifact of gcc on ARM. Like clever assembly language programmers, gcc
does a jump to function B if the last call in function A is a call to
function B. That happened to break my task switcher when the clock tick
happened right after the jump - something that appeared to be random.
Programming isn't for everyone .. just those who can beat their head
against the wall for days on end.
Sincerely,
David Smead
www.amplepower.com
www.amplepower.net
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2007-08-20, David Smead <[email protected]> wrote:
Your problem is not gdb, but with the C language.
:)
He was told that when he posted the exact same question/code in
the MSP430 mailing list (the yahoo one) a week or two back. He
apparently didn't like that answer so he decided to ask
somewhere else.
About a quarter of the postings in that list are from people
who are missing more than a few clues regarding the C language,
so they claim there's something wrong with their compiler.
Needless to say, there almost never is anything wrong with the
compilers, and the poor guys who are trying to support the
compilers spend much of their time teaching a junior-high
school level "Intro to C" class to people who refuse to listen.
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