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GoatPete
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16 bit pointers
PostPosted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 3:14 am     Reply with quote
Hi.
This code works for 8 bit pointers (#device *=8), but it does not work for 16 bit pointers (#device *=16). &dataBytes is always 0x0000 and so is dataBytes[x] always 0x00.
Who can point me to my mistake?

Code:

// 8 bit -> char*
static void send_packet(byte cmd, char* dataBytes[], byte dataLength) {
// 16 bit -> long*
static void send_packet(byte cmd, long* dataBytes[], byte dataLength) {
   int8 i;

   putc(cmd);
   putc(dataLength);
   for (i = 0; i < dataLength; i++) {
      putc(dataBytes[i]);
   }
   putc(calc_chk(cmd, dataBytes, dataLength));
}

static void main() {
  byte dataBuffer[11];

  strcpy(dataBuffer, str);
  send_packet(cmd, dataBuffer, 10);
}


Regards.
GoatPete
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Re: 16 bit pointers
PostPosted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 6:09 am     Reply with quote
Solved it myself.

Please note that this one is wrong, of course. It's still a pointer to a char.
GoatPete wrote:

Code:

// 16 bit -> long*
static void send_packet(byte cmd, long* dataBytes[], byte dataLength) {



This way it works in 8 bit and 16 bit mode:

Code:

static void send_packet(byte cmd, char* dataBytes, byte dataLength) {
   int8 i;

   putc(cmd);
   putc(dataLength);
   for (i = 0; i < dataLength; i++) {
      putc(dataBytes[i]);
   }
   putc(calc_chk(cmd, dataBytes, dataLength));
}


Regards,
GoatPete
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 6:09 am     Reply with quote
#device *=8 and #device *=16 have nothing to do with char* and long* but rather the size of the actual pointer and not the size of the data. With #device *=8 pointers are only 8 bits which would allow you to only access a block of 256 bytes of RAM.

Code:

static void send_packet(byte cmd, byte* ptrBytes, byte dataLength)
{
   int8 i;

   putc(cmd);
   putc(dataLength);
   for (i = 0; i < dataLength; i++)
  {
     putc(*(ptrBytes+i));
   }
   putc(calc_chk(cmd, ptrBytes, dataLength));
}

static void main()
{
  byte dataBuffer[11];

  strcpy(dataBuffer, str);
  send_packet(cmd, dataBuffer, 10);
}
valemike
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 8:01 am     Reply with quote
In the 16F family, after some headscratching, I realized that I needed to enable 16 bit pointers when my program started getting big. It also took its toll on overall ROM usage compared to 8-bit pointers.

I never found myself having to do 16 bit pointers for the 18F series. Are 16bit pointers enabled by default by the compiler for the 18F? Or is this convenience built into the 18F architecture?

Thanks,
Mike
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