Re: [avr-gcc-list] multiplexed display question

[Richard Urwin]

On Sunday 08 May 2005 8:35 pm, Radu Ciurlea wrote:
> Hello everybody. I'm just starting out with AVR microcontrollers
>
> I wrote the following program to test the whole thing:
>
> uint8_t count,div;

>What's wrong with updating count in
> main()? As far as I know updating global variables from any function
> should be okay. What am I doing wrong?

Newbie bug #1, I'm afraid.
main() doesn't bother to store the intermediate values into count.
Any variables that are accessed in interrupt functions should probably 
be marked volatile.

Try using
volatile uint8_t count;

It would be best to do that for active_pin too.

-- 
Richard Urwin