On 15 March 2011 13:46, JMGross <msp...@grossibaer.de> wrote: > ----- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ----- > Von: Peter Bigot >> I think Eric misinterpreted Crazy Casta's position on watchdog, though I'm >> very sympathetic to the "least surprise" principle, and yes, it will waste a >> lot of people's time if this change isn't made very clear. But the MSP430 >> has a watchdog feature, people *should* be aware of it, and consistency with >> TI's tools and documentation means mspgcc shouldn't pretend it's not there. > Well, I mus tsay I was really surprised to see that the watchdog, while > documented as being active after a reset, in fact was inactive in all my > projects. > It took me quite some time (I had to dig into MSP assembly) to > figure out that MSPGCC was silently disabling it.
I believe the least surprise is not doing magic things by default that disagree with all the common documentation. I was certainly surprised that this GCC does that. >> Anybody who doesn't want to deal with it in user code can put this: >> WDTCTL = WDTPW + WDTHOLD; // Stop WDT >> at the top of main(), as is done in every TI example program I've seen > > That's at least conforming to the docs and what someone would expect > wo does not know about compiler internals and just uses C. > Indeed, this would work. But that's also 'advanced stuff'. > Especially people who use the G line are newbies. > Of course mspgcc could be promoted as 'expert stuff' not aimed at > 'normal' MSP users but rather for experienced compiler-knowers, > but I don't think this would be a good direction to go. > Let's keep in mind that an MSP is no PC. So there is no point > in desperately implementing things that are useless on an MSP > 'just for conformity'. Trying to guess at your audience instead of DTRT is a very rotten idea IMO. Making things for your imagined "normal user" is probably what's responsible for most of the user interface horrors out there. -- I appear to be temporarily using gmail's horrible interface. I apologise for any failure in my part in trying to make it do the right thing with post formatting. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Mspgcc-users mailing list Mspgcc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mspgcc-users
