Post by thread:] Re: recommended PIC books? / ASM versus C rant

> No matter what, you *need* to know asm. Make that "you need to *know* asm" (in most cases no need to *use* it). Wouter van Ooijen -- ------------------------------------------- Van Ooijen Technische Informatica: http://www.voti.nl consultancy, development, PICmicro products -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList spam_OUTpiclist-unsubscribe-requestTakeThisOuTmitvma.mit.edu

On Wednesday, May 5, 2004, at 14:04 US/Pacific, Wouter van Ooijen wrote: > > Make that "you need to *know* asm" (in most cases no need to *use* it). > That sounds about right. I'm quite enjoying avoiding all those banking and paging issues by using the one of the freeware version C compilers, and I'm impressed with the small percentage of memory used by the things that I'm wanting to do at the moment, but I can't imagine being able to create C programs for a PIC without some significant understanding of the chip architectures, which tend to be 'described' in asm... BillW -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads