RE: [avr-gcc-list] Kindness and respect.

[Dave Hansen]

From: "Jim Davis" <address@hidden>

> Alan,
> Thanks for the kind words.  I was feeling a bit slapped, because tone

Who slapped you?  As I see it, you got a very helpful informative answer.  A 
different poster questioned this response, and was directed to approriate 
sources.

> does not transmit via email.. only words.  terse words are easily
> misunderstood. RTFM is not terse, its rude.  I did read the manual, and

But you didn't _get_ a RTFM.  If anyone got an RTFM, it was Jeff.  And he 
didn't either: he got (paraphrasing) "This is a standard C thing, nothing 
special to do with AVR or GCC, there's lots of info on it out there, look 
here or here or here."

> would like to kick myself for not understanding it right away.  Once 
> clarity
> comes it can be so obvious.  You are right to suggest that some of us are
> not as familiar with the territory as others, and some compassion would
> go a long way.

As I see it, the conversation went like this:

  Jim: <summary> What is the proper way to tell the compiler what to do 
here?

  Zane: <summary> Make sure you've declared command as "volatile"

  Jeff: <in toto> "volatile"?
        [I'm not even sure what the question is --DH]

  Eric: <in toto> Go look at a good C book, or ask on the comp.lang.c 
newsgroup.

  Dave (not me): <summary> Here's an online reference:

  Alan (objecting to Eric's response): <paraphrase> Can't we all just get 
along?

My answer: I thought we were...

The best advice so far in this thread was Eric's final message: <paraphrase> 
Read http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html.

Apologies for wasting more bandwidth on this.
  -=Dave