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TIME and Date
- __DATE__
- __TIME__
using __TIME__ and __DATE__ with the xc8 compiler I’m able to get the time and date as strings. As I don’t have a RTCC and only limited program and data memory, I want to implement the time & date functionality as efficiently as possible. So I’ve tried to use macros and thought this would save some memory, but unfortunately it does not.
- For example: this is the code I use to get the starting hour as an int:
#define BUILD_HOUR ((__TIME__[0] - '0') * 10 + __TIME__[1] - '0') int hour = BUILD_HOUR;// start value
I assumed that the preprocessor and compiler would optimize this, so I would not get a lot of addidtional memory usage. But the whole cumputation is done by the pic 12F1572 I use. Is there a better solution for this problem or any workaround ?
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