Re: [avr-gcc-list] Problems with ATMEGA8 USART

[Dave Hylands]

Hi,

> Be warned that the head/tail usage can be something of a religious
> war with people. There are those who champion the opposite roles
> of head/tail, and remember it with "when you join a queue, should you
> join at the head or the tail ?" - so if you inherit code, it is
> always worth double checking which rule the author is following.

I get around this problem with cicular buffers by having get and put
ptrs or indicies. It makes it much more obvious what they do.

-- 
Dave Hylands
Vancouver, BC, Canada
http://www.DaveHylands.com/