Preface
2015 Microchip Technology Inc.
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CONVENTIONS USED IN THIS GUIDE
This manual uses the following documentation conventions:
DOCUMENTATION CONVENTIONS
Description
Represents
Examples
Arial font:
Italic characters
Referenced books
MPLAB
®
IDE User’s Guide
Emphasized text
...is the
only
compiler...
Initial caps
A window
the Output window
A dialog
the Settings dialog
A menu selection
select Enable Programmer
Quotes
A field name in a window or
dialog
“Save project before build”
Underlined, italic text with
right angle bracket
A menu path
File>Save
Bold characters
A dialog button
Click
OK
A tab
Click the
Power
tab
N‘Rnnnn
A number in verilog format,
where N is the total number of
digits, R is the radix and n is a
digit.
4‘b0010, 2‘hF1
Text in angle brackets < >
A key on the keyboard
Press <Enter>, <F1>
Courier New font:
Plain Courier New
Sample source code
#define START
Filenames
autoexec.bat
File paths
c:\mcc18\h
Keywords
_asm, _endasm, static
Command-line options
-Opa+, -Opa-
Bit values
0, 1
Constants
0xFF, ‘A’
Italic Courier New
A variable argument
file
.o
, where
file
can be
any valid filename
Square brackets [ ]
Optional arguments
mcc18 [options]
file
[options]
Curly brackets and pipe
character: { | }
Choice of mutually exclusive
arguments; an OR selection
errorlevel {0|1}
Ellipses...
Replaces repeated text
var_name [,
var_name...]
Represents code supplied by
user
void main (void)
{ ...
}