William "Chops" Westfield wrote :

> On May 15, 2005, at 1:23 PM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> > That is, the PWM functions calls like PWM_Init doesn't work.
> 
> > I guess that is something mikroElektronika has to add, right ?
> > And that there is nothing I (as a simple "user") can do about it ?
> >
> I would hope not.  IMO, a REQUIREMENT of any embedded compiler is that
> it able to have enough RAW access to memory and peripheral devices in
> the target for the user to write (or re-write) any needed library 
> functions for dealing with the features of the chip.  Time for:
> 
> (* PWM library doesn't work on 12F683; here's a replacement *)
> procedure my_PWM_Init(...)'
> begin
> 	(* manipulate raw bits *)
> end

Yes, you are right, of course.
>From my first few hours of browsning around, I havn't found
any (obviouse) way of building anything that doesn't start
with the "program" directive. That is, I was looking for a way to
separately build a file with ony a "unit" in it. Maybe the full
(non-demo) version has more build options...


> (Traditionally, this would be a weakness of pascal (compared to C.)  
> It's harder in Pascal to allow "raw" access to things while 
> remaining within the spirit of the language...)

Maybe so.
The sole reason I'm looking at this now, is that I have a
possible assignment comming where the "other guy" is
an long time user of the Borland Pascal based tools (forgot
the name right now, but they are well known...), and he
has been looking at mikroPascal as a tool for this PIC
based project also. If I'd like to be a part of that, I'd guess
I have to check it out. I *have* used Pascal before, but that
was on RSX-11/M on a PDP-11/84 in the early 80's... :-)

Jan-Erik.



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