At 22:49 10/25/2001 -0700, Ned Konz wrote:
>On Thursday 25 October 2001 09:52 pm, Brent Brown wrote:
> > James Caska wrote:
> > > Probably a silly question, but am I to understand the the HITECH-C
> > > compiler does not ship with libraries for these standard sort of
> > > things?
> >
> > Not a silly question, but yes, it doesn't come with those sort of
> > things.
>
>That argument makes sense for non-standard keywords, pragmas, etc., but
>doesn't make too much sense for libraries.

In fact, it does come with a small collection of sample code (like
bit-banged I2C -- I'm surprised that Brent didn't mention this, selling the
compiler and so... :).

But for many other things originally requested, providing libs seems really
not to make much sense. Libraries for A/D? How many different AD converters
and methods exist, between external and internal, using internal or
external comparator and using (internal) PWM or a resistor ladder DAC for
comparing, ...? For the internal ADC for example, providing a lib would be
downright ridiculous. Configuring the lib would probably be more work than
setting up the ADC. Accessing an I2C or SPI ADC doesn't really need an ADC
lib, standard I2C or SPI code is good enough, the rest is pretty much
application-specific.

Of course I like it when I can just "plug it in", but then, I'd rather see
them spending their time in making the compiler itself better (and more bug
free) than providing additional libs which I can write on my own or ask
other users.

ge

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