Re: [Simulavr-devel] RFC: a few feature ideas

[Michael N. Moran]

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> On Wed Apr 22 16:57 , "Michael N. Moran"  sent:
>
> > Joel Sherrill wrote:
>
> > > + A mechanism to load the contents of the eeprom
> > > to a file and subsequently save it to that file.
> > That sounds useful. I guess there may be cross
> > platform issues with file I/O, but ... other than
> > that :)
>
> There really shouldn't be.
> If there were,
> we wouldn't be able to pass around jpegs, gifs and pdfs.

I suppose that is true, given that the file I/O
is done with C++ library file streams... sorry...
my best excuse is that my world is usually paranoid
and embedded. :)

> Since the eeprom is normally byte-addressed anyway,
> there is little temptation to write 32-bit things.

So you suggest a straight binary representation?

ASCII might make the files easier to edit by hand
if required but, of course, that would "complicate"
the load/save procedures.


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