Re: [avr-libc-dev] timer.h

[E. Weddington]

On 30 Sep 2002 at 10:03, Theodore A. Roth wrote:

> 
> 
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, E. Weddington wrote:
> 
> :) > IMHO, it's hard to even make it `complete', since the notion of
> :) > completeness might vary much between different environments. 
> Also, :) > newer ATmegas use different names for the bit descriptions.
> :) > :) That's what conditional compilation is for. ;-)
> 
> Be careful there. Conditional compilation can be dangerous. For
> instance, how to you guarantee that you've tested all the various
> permutations of the conditions? Then there's the fact that it can make
> the code incredibly difficult to read (look at all the confusion
> lately with the _SFR_* macros). Kernighan and Pike's "The Practice of
> Programming" has a good discussion on this (among many excellent
> discussions).
> 

Rendered moot by your excellent suggestion to have it as examples :-)

I *thought* it was deja vu:
http://mail.freesoftware.fsf.org/pipermail/avr-libc-dev/2002-
August/000112.html

So in the same vein, twi.h should be canned too.

Eric