Re: Why I love open source.....

> I feel sorry for the people who are stuck with MPLAB/MPLINK etc.

Amen!! we had to use it for uni. it was bloody terrible. crashed all the
time. and no option to specify include paths on the command line :-(

> BTW the technique means I can include drivers for various devices (like
> UART,TMRx,LCDdisplays) by simply including the appropriate ".o" file in
> the liker command and adding EXTERN declarations for the device API.
> The overhead is a small ISR and a bit of generic startup code.  No need
> to worry about the device initialisation or interrupt handlers as they
> all get included and called automagically.

why does this required the objects to be linked in any particular order?

cheers

iain