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Bad character sequence encountered: @ [message #512293]

Thu, 04 February 2010 15:16

Dirk Wibben

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Hello,

I'm developing software on an embedded controller.
I want to use special-function-register (SFR) of the microcontroller with a symbolic name, which addresses the SFR by its location:

volatile unsigned char ioP0 @ 0xFFF00;

Now CDT gives me the annotations 'Bad character sequence encountered: @' and 'Syntax error'.

The compiler and linker for that microcontroller handle that code perfectly.

So what have I to do, to either let CDT accept the code or ignoring the part '@ 0xFFF00' (or any number/address)?

Best regards
Dirk

Best regards
Dirk

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Re: Bad character sequence encountered: @ [message #515218 is a reply to message #512293]

Thu, 18 February 2010 08:49

Dirk Wibben

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Anyone . . . any idea ??? Confused

Best regards
Dirk

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Re: Bad character sequence encountered: @ [message #516968 is a reply to message #512293]

Thu, 25 February 2010 16:05

Synopsis

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just use the proper (ANSI) syntax:

pointers to memory mapped hardware

[Updated on: Thu, 25 February 2010 16:06]

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Re: Bad character sequence encountered: @ [message #517077 is a reply to message #512293]

Fri, 26 February 2010 06:26

Dirk Wibben

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THX for the hint.

Best regards
Dirk

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Re: Bad character sequence encountered: @ [message #646726 is a reply to message #512293]

Thu, 30 December 2010 14:52

Tamas Kleiber

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Hello everyone, I have a similar problem.

We've just started to use the eclipse IDE with CDT and we encountered the same warning message.

We are using the Cosmic compiler for Freescale micro controllers which uses or defines several special type qualifiers like @dir, @eeprom, @far, @near.

The type qualifier shall be used like this:
@dir volatile char sync;

For example, the @dir qualifier tells the liker, that the sync variable should be put into the direct memory page which can be addressed using 8 bit addresses. I know that sections can be defined with #pragma directives, so there is a workaround for this annoying issue. But, changing all SW modules in all of our actively developed projects would consume so much time and cost effort that this is not a selectable option for us.

I would like to ask for help on how can I extend CDT's parser to detect and parse correctly custom type qualifiers. It is enough for me if someone could tell which files to look for.

Thank you in advance for your kind help.

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Re: Bad character sequence encountered: @ [message #690874 is a reply to message #646726]

Thu, 30 June 2011 11:03

Martin

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Hello,

We also use the combination of eclipse CDT and cosmic compiler and we are also looking for a solution or workaround for the "Bad character sequence encountered: @" warning issue of eclipse CDT.

@Tamas:
Did you already find a solution for this issue?

kind regards,
Martin

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Re: Bad character sequence encountered: @ [message #690968 is a reply to message #690874]

Thu, 30 June 2011 13:39

Tamas Kleiber

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Hello Martin,

I found a workaround Smile

Add the following definition to a header file which is included by all of your modules.

#ifdef COSMIC_AT
#define _at(n) @##n
#else
#define _at(n)
#endif

Among the compiler options, there is the -d<DEFINE> option. You can add the compiler option -dCOSMIC_AT="FIX_ME" to define the COSMIC_AT symbol at compilation time. This way, eclipse will not be aware of the symbol definition.

In the C files, you can define @tiny, @interrupt,@dir and other such parameters like this:

extern _at(tiny) unsigned char ucVariable1;

or

void _at(interrupt) IsrRoutine(void);

eclipse will see this: extern unsigned char ucVariable1;
your compiler will see this: extern @tiny unsigned char ucVariable1;

This little trick works perfectly for eclipse together with cosmic compiler.

Best regards,
Tamas

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Re: Bad character sequence encountered: @ [message #691282 is a reply to message #690968]

Fri, 01 July 2011 06:58

Dirk Wibben

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Hi Tamas,

THX for the nice idea.

Regards
Dirk

Best regards
Dirk

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Re: Bad character sequence encountered: @ [message #693444 is a reply to message #691282]

Wed, 06 July 2011 13:40

Anton Leherbauer

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There has been done some optional support to make the parser accept @ in the source code:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=237028
You still need to create and register a custom language variant for it, though. It's explained in the bug.

BTW, instead of
#ifdef COSMIC_AT

you could also use
#ifndef __CDT_PARSER__

This macro is only defined by the CDT parser.
HTH

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