Re: Startup code
Jack Klein wrote:
Don't any of you do serious POST testing of your hardware?
Horses for courses boy. If I've got 2k of flash and 256 bytes of RAM, I
haven't got room for POST. If no one is going to get hurt if the system
fails, why bother with POST? Why bother anyway for non- critical
systems? Who's going to thank you for it? It malfunctions, the customer
curses his luck or the mains, reboots, and that's it for another 15 years.
On the other hand, a soft failure in RAM can happen at any time, not
just startup. The program gives a wrong result or crashes, the drive
trips out or the watchdog kicks in, the customer curses his luck...
If on the other hand it fails every time you start up (either because
the RAM has died and it fails POST, or the RAM has died and the program
crashes), customer service is called out, and it gets fixed. Or not,
because they went bust 10 years ago...
Paul Burke
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