RE: [Simulavr-devel] [patch #7032] unitialized HWUart, did neverfinish sending

[Weddington, Eric]

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> As Petr Hluzín wrote:
> 
> > Because the ATmegaXX is the canonical (manufacturer's) name. The
> > processor's name is ATmega16, not atmega16.  A compiler, simulator,
> > etc are not in position to reject official names.
> 
> OTOH, the lowercase form has been in use in the AVR-GCC toolchain all
> the time, and the compiler only accepts it as lowercase.  But of
> course, I wouldn't mind if other tools accepted it in any case.
> 
> > By the way avrdude uses (and used to require) a "code" of m16 for
> > that chip. What about requiring "m16"?
> 
> AVRDUDE only offers that as a shortcut alias.  It accepts the long
> name as well, and it is case independant when accepting the name.

And honestly, I would rather that avrdude got rid of those shortcut aliases, as 
it just confuses the end user. I would rather that it accepts the full 
lowercase name like avr-gcc, and possibly the full canonical (mixed case) name. 
It's not like these device names are incredibly long that they need to be 
abbreviated.