Quote Originally Posted by Melanie View Post
My largest PBP program runs at about 4,500 lines and works flawlessly. However, I can't say the same for 18F series PICs - they do have anomalies, especially the early ones. Take the 18F2420 for example... part of the 18F242/252 family... all's well until you try to use PortE.3 in a design - then Gawd help you! Hey ski - you actually want to look at somebody's 1900 line program? Run out of credit at the bar, and you're killing time waiting for payday or something?
Sure...I figure I can add some colons here and there...make it...oh I don't know, maybe 190 lines instead
Heck, my old mp3 player project ended up being 2,057 lines AFTER combining lines and my current project is already up to 2,015 (again with a load of colons) and I'm only about 1/2 done with it.
Besides, like you said, with some of the 18F series, they're a bit flakey. I haven't had a problem with them in over a couple of years, but those early ones...Look out!
Who knows...might be something that you or I would easily recognize as an obvious error, but somebody with limited PBP experience wouldn't see it...but after pointing it out, stands out like a sore thumb after the first time.