The Question: Does doing if(SomeFunction() == TRUE) instead of doing if(SomeFunction()) protect against some type of coding error? I'm trying to understand if this is protecting from some hidden la...

I have code written in C but I need to see the Assembly file so I can optimize the code and figure out how long certain functions will take. Does anyone know of a quick way to pull up the Assembly ...

In MPLAB IDE what is the sizes of data types (int, unsigned int, float, unsigned float, char...)?

Im trying to use shared_ptr in an embedded project which is build with xc32 1.34 (a derivative of gcc 4.5.2). The project has RTTI disabled with -fno-rtti. #include <memory> Just includin...

I have a folder with some .h and .c files and I want to use header files in my projects. I have included them in "Header Files" folder of my project using "Add Existing Item" but when i try to "#i...

I am new to the Java world, but am familiar with Ruby. I am trying to write a program that interacts with some third-party jar files. While the libraries seem to behave fine if called from Java, t...

Consider the following code. char message[]="foo"; void main(void){ message[] = "bar"; } Why is there a syntax error in MPLAB IDE v8.63? I am just trying to change the value of character array...

I've been using PC-Lint with MPLAB for a couple of years now and it has been really useful. MPLAB is about to change to be a netbeans based IDE and I've not found any netbeans plugins for PC-Lint. ...

I started using MPLAB recently, but for someone that works with Eclipse and VS the IDE it's very limited. Do you know any free IDE or how to configure Ecplise or Netbeans to PIC development? ...