>-----Original Message-----
>From: Robert Soubie [mailto:robert.soubie@FREE.FR]
>Sent: 07 January 2004 17:36
>To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>Subject: Re: [PIC:] Pic as an i2c slave

           ; then something is wrong.
>I2CErr:
>nop
>banksel PORTB    ; Something went wrong! Set LED
>bsf PORTB,7      ; and loop forever. WDT will reset
>goto $           ; device, if enabled.
>return
>
>This comment "something went wrong" seems to imply that the
>current state, that leads to i2cErr has no meaning there and
>in fact should never happen; it appears to be confirmed by the
>pathetic attempt to have the watchdog reboot the PIC by
>executing a goto $ instruction...
>

Out of interest what is pathetic about the attempt to deliberately fire a
watchdog timeout by using an infinite loop?  Surely you agree that it is
good practice to trap invalid states such as this?

Mike




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