Re: Microchip Introduces First 16-bit Microcontroller Product Line - the PIC24

Andreas Schwarz wrote:

> Mike Harrison schrieb:
>
>> AVR and PIC have probably about the same number of architectural
>> annoyances
>
> I disagree. The only thing I don't like about the AVR is the Harvard
> architecture, because it makes handling of constants and variables a bit
> cumbersome when you program in C

Interesting. Do you mean cumbersome in C itself or in the underlying machine
code created by the compiler?

> - but compared to the evils of the PIC
> architecture (banking!) this is nothing.

Absolutely.

Ian
.

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