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

[Theodore A. Roth]

On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, E. Weddington wrote:

:) On 30 Sep 2002 at 10:03, Theodore A. Roth wrote:
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:) >
:) >
:) > On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, E. Weddington wrote:
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:) > :) > 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.

I'd suggest for the next release just adding deprecation warnings to the
headers to be removed. After that, we might remove the files if the
examples are in place. Thus, no suprises for the users.

Ted Roth