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From: Paul Shirley <Paul AT chocolat DOT foobar DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: HELP MEEEEEE!!!!
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 01:53:09 +0100
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In article <322E303A DOT 114 AT cs DOT com>, "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
writes
>The term "microcontroller" is not familiar to me, but it doesn't really
....in which case why did you answer?

>matter.  Even if a program is somehow compiled as a subprogram of a larger
>one, it still exists as a _separate module_ and there is no guarantee that
>somebody won't try to put it in a situation where its (undefined) return
>code is needed.

A microcontroller is a tiny processor system used in things like remote
controls, toasters and CD players. It may have CPU,ROM,RAM and IO all on
1 chip.

It almost always runs just 1 program, which exits catastrophically when
the user kills the power... now tell me again, what was the return value
used for?

-- 
Paul Shirley