RE: [avr-libc-dev] SPMEN vs SELFPRGEN

[Weddington, Eric]

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> Subject: [avr-libc-dev] SPMEN vs SELFPRGEN
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> >>>>> Ivan Shmakov <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
>  > BTW, since SPMEN seems to be frequent alias to SELFPRGEN, 
> why not to
>  > define one of them in a common file (`io.h'?) instead of defining
>  > both in each of the part-specific headers (where 
> applicable)?  E. g.:

In the future, the IO header files will be generated from the XML part
files from Atmel, requiring a 1-to-1 relationship of XML->IO header
file. It would be difficult to do this if common definitions are put in
separate files.
 

>       Since `SPMEN' seems to be used more widely in the AVR Libc
>       includes as the name for the bit, I suggest replacing
>       `SELFPRGEN' with `SPMEN' in the macro definitions in the
>       individual io*.h files, like the following.  (Though it could
>       easily done the other way around.)
> 

Our policy is to provide definitions that are found in the XML part
description files provided by Atmel.

Eric Weddington