Re: [avr-gcc-list] Problems with ATMEGA8 USART

[Dave Hansen]

From: Dave Hylands <address@hidden>

> > Be warned that the head/tail usage can be something of a religious
> > war with people. There are those who champion the opposite roles
> > of head/tail, and remember it with "when you join a queue, should you
> > join at the head or the tail ?" - so if you inherit code, it is
> > always worth double checking which rule the author is following.
>
> I get around this problem with cicular buffers by having get and put
> ptrs or indicies. It makes it much more obvious what they do.

In the past I've used left and right.  That way, the code is compatible with 
a deque.  But of course, it also makes it _less_ obvious what they do...

Regards,
  -=Dave