topic AS1_TComData in CodeWarrior for MCU https://community.nxp.com/t5/CodeWarrior-for-MCU/AS1-TComData/m-p/140193#M2433 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>this is HC08 CW v5.0.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>the sending and receiving function code that ESCI and SPI beans generate,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>AS1_SendChar(AS1_TComData Chr)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>why is the datatype defined/called AS1_TcomData ? Why can't it just be called byte or char?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I found the typedef declaration somewhere in one of the files in the project.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 15 Dec 2006 03:28:03 GMT tmyint 2006-12-15T03:28:03Z AS1_TComData https://community.nxp.com/t5/CodeWarrior-for-MCU/AS1-TComData/m-p/140193#M2433 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>this is HC08 CW v5.0.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>the sending and receiving function code that ESCI and SPI beans generate,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>AS1_SendChar(AS1_TComData Chr)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>why is the datatype defined/called AS1_TcomData ? Why can't it just be called byte or char?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I found the typedef declaration somewhere in one of the files in the project.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 15 Dec 2006 03:28:03 GMT https://community.nxp.com/t5/CodeWarrior-for-MCU/AS1-TComData/m-p/140193#M2433 tmyint 2006-12-15T03:28:03Z Re: AS1_TComData https://community.nxp.com/t5/CodeWarrior-for-MCU/AS1-TComData/m-p/140194#M2434 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>The typedef does make sense, when you use an SCI in 9 bit mode, then AS1_TComData is typedefed to word, not to byte anymore.<BR />So with the typedef the code works independently of this setting.<BR />If you want to use byte in your code, well that's actually even compatible as in C typedefs do not introduce new types, they just introduce an alias to an existing type. Of course then your code will fail with a 9 bit SCI.<BR /><BR />Daniel</BODY></HTML> Sat, 16 Dec 2006 05:13:13 GMT https://community.nxp.com/t5/CodeWarrior-for-MCU/AS1-TComData/m-p/140194#M2434 CompilerGuru 2006-12-16T05:13:13Z