Re: [avr-chat] Endless loop in AVR?

[Rolf Magnus]

On Samstag, 28. Juli 2007, Bob Paddock wrote:

> Place a NOP inside the while(1){}.  Sometimes the compiler is 'helpful'
> and optimizes away that it thinks you don't need.

The compiler will never optimize away an endless loop, because that would 
alter the program's behavior and violate the C standard. You are probably 
thinking about delay loops, which can indeed be optimized away.