I was looking at some of the code in the Arduino runtime library today, and I saw something that looked a bit fishy to me. In the following code, it occurred to me that there could be a bug when rx_buffer_head wraps around from 127 back to 0: int serialAvailable() { return (rx_buffer_head - rx_…

found bug in Serial.available()

mellis January 9, 2007, 8:34am 2

Whoops!

Good catch, I'll fix this for Arduino 0008.

Thanks much.

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