Re: [avr-gcc-list] tmr.h:15: error: `__vector_4' undeclared here (not in a function)

[Ned Konz]

On Monday 23 August 2004 6:29 am, Günter Dannoritzer wrote:

> Now, don't beat me ;-), but I installed the AVR-GCC provided by Atmel.
> Is that a big mistake or is this installation setup right to work? I
> thought having this DWARF debugging capability might be a nice feature,
> but maybe I overestimated it and should rather use the WINAVR installation?

Should be OK.

> Anyhow, I did some changes to the code of my project, mostly include
> paths. That took away most of the compile errors except for this one error:
>
> tmr.h:15: error: `__vector_4' undeclared here (not in a function)
>
> which has to do with the interrupt vector. I tried to find some more
> information about how the interrupt handling works, but had no luck
> getting rid of this error. I read through the AVR libc documentation
> concerning the INTERRUPT macro and it looks like it is used correct in
> my code.
>
> My code line (line 15 of the tmr.h file) causing the error is this:
>
> INTERRUPT [SIG_OUTPUT_COMPARE1A] void TmrTenMillisecondTick(void);

This is wrong for several reasons:
* you can't declare interrupt functions with different names (you can call 
functions from them, but they have fixed names)
* macro arguments are given in parentheses, not square brackets
* INTERRUPT() and SIGNAL() are used with pre-defined function names (generally 
defined by macros named like your SIG_OUTPUT_COMPARE1A that resolve to 
specific names like __vector_4 )

The INTERRUPT() and SIGNAL() macros are generally used to *define* a function, 
not to *declare* it. The declaration in your header file is unnecessary 
(besides being wrong), as it's not callable externally (i.e. by your C code) 
anyway.

Instead, these macros define functions with particular names (like, for 
instance __vector_4).

You would do this to define your function (note that it *isn't* possible to 
name it something else):

INTERRUPT(SIG_OUTPUT_COMPARE1A)
{
 // the function that was once called TmrTenMillisecondTick() ...
}


> What I don't understand is, it looks like that the avr-gcc needs to know
> about this __vector_ which it seems like it does not. I searched through
> the archive but did not find any similar problems.


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