Matthew Rhys-Roberts wrote:
> Hear here... I also encourage the writing of a good guide on stepping up 
> from PIC assembler to C or other higher level language. This is 
> something I need to do myself, and have not yet begun looking around for 
> advice on how to do so!
>
> For example, I now appreciate the skill required in writing or adapting 
> low-level maths library functions, but knowing how to abstract this sort 
> of process via a higher level language would be welcome.
>
> Matt
>
>
> Brendan Gillatt wrote:
>   
>> As well as the things other people have mentioned, I strongly suggest you
>> dedicate a whole section to having a step-by-step guide to getting a
>> decent assembler/C toolchain set up.
>>
>> <snip>
>> Brendan Gillatt | GPG Key: 0xBF6A0D94
>>
>>     
At this point in time, I do not have the experience in C to write such a 
guide. I would love to see this too and would gratefully accept any 
tutorial material and/or advice to be placed on the site along with due 
credit and links to the author's site if applicable. I have been 
struggling with the move to embedded C because C in any form is a new 
language to me. On the PC I can manage at the beginners level but have a 
few hurdles to overcome in shifting that knowledge to a micro. Some good 
examples are port/pin representation, variable allocation specific to 
the processor, and interrupt handling. To the initiated embedded C 
programmer, what I just said may be no more than spewing nonsense 
(probably is!), but when ya don't know, where do ya go? I have looked at 
some C code examples for the PICs and in general they make sense but 
there are areas that do not seem clear. When I get the time to really 
dive in to embedded C and get over the hump with the concepts I am not 
sure of, I will be generating a bit of traffic on the list for sure. 
Thanks for the input Matthew. If you have any more suggestions, please 
post them!

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Stephen D. Barnes

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