on 2/2/02 2:01 AM, Peter Onion at ponion@SRD.BT.CO.UK wrote:

Peter,

> Take a hint Sean :-)  Finding this sort of bug is exactly the sort of thing
> that simulators were designed for !

Yes. I agree. But the particular MPLAB simulator is all but useless to me.

> The reason it "It takes far too long!!!" in MPLAB is probably the same reason
> it seems to go around the loop too many times on a real PIC.

No. Not so. It takes minutes to complete a single 500mS delay!


> Watch the value of COUNTER and see if it is being changed in unexpected places
> in the code.

See my code just posted in response to Jo (jinx). It's real simple. The LED
on GP5 (Pin 6) is toggling perfectly. All I do is count them and I lose
count! :-) A lot more than 6.

Regards,

Sean

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