im sorry if you misunderstood my question. i was wondering if reprograming the robot was legal durring the compitition.
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Programming an embedded system is absolutely nothing like programming a PC.
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again, thanks -- ive been programming MCUs since i was 9 and got my first BOE-BOT kit... 7 years later i think i can tell the difference between a IBM platform PC and a PIC microprocessor
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First rule: Never, never, ever use floating point arithmetic.
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i don’t like the thought of using chars, ints are pushing it...
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Second rule: Never, ever use dynamic allocation of memory.
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external EEPROM is better then internal memory if you want to map data, but i generally use algorithms anyway (DMA isnt my cup of tea)
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Third: Avoid pointer manipulations unless you understand what it does in the machine (some dereferencing manipulations are murder).
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this i most hardly agree with
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Look at the assembly code being generated by the compiler. You can see it in the .lst file that is generated when you build your project.
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I used to write assembly for fun, thank you very much - thus my habits of not using as few IFs as possible; i much prefer boolean algebra.
Im not a "newbie" programmer, ive have been the head of our programming team since my freshman year. I have taken collage level CS in JAVA and C, as well as many, many courses on programming in just about every other modern high level language.
However, i have been doing this for a relatively short period of time -- there are people that are much better at this then i will ever be, and many of them participate in FIRST. i never pretend to know everything, so i respect everyone on the forums, and assume they know more then me, and in turn I hope they respect me
also i try very hard to keep delphi threads to the point... but stuff like
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At the risk of sounding condescending, I can't believe that anyone is running out of space.
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is unnecessary. i am sorry that you dont believe me
, i never thought that i would have to take a screnie for something like that.
external processing is what our team has planned thus far. and i will be sure to try Marks optimization process... i wasnt looking for a lecture on how to optimize code (read the thread title!) i was looking for the legal implications of reprogramming the robot during a match. Thanks anyway – jsd