I am trying to figure out, how to use an unsigned char
type of a variable inside a for
loop, while not "breaking" out of range for unsigned char
, which can vary form 0 to 255.
main(void) {
TRISC = 0;
LATC = 0;
unsigned char j;
for (j = 0; j <= 255 ; j++){
LATC = j;
__delay_ms(1000);
}
return;
}
This is code in C, where PIC is programmed. "TRISC = 0" means setting port C as an output and "LATC" is referring to port C itself. Basically I want to assign values from including 0 to 255 to this port. But if I try to compile this, the compiler (xc8) returns following two warnings:
I cannot quite understand what these two are saying, but I assume it has to do something with variable j
exceeding the limit value of unsigned char
, that is 255 (in last iteration j = 256
, which is not allowed/defined).
However, this code gets compiled and works as meant. But I still want to write and understand a code that assigns port C the value of 255 without entering "prohibited" range of values.
*P.S. I would use any other variable type than unsigned char
or char
, however to ports in PICs only these two types can be applied directly (without conversion).
j <= 255
is always true if j
is only 8 Bit wide.
This version should work:
main(void) {
TRISC = 0;
LATC = 0;
int j;
for (j = 0; j <= 255 ; j++){
LATC = (unsigned char)j;
__delay_ms(1000);
}
return;
}