Servo library incompatible with NewSoftSerial [imported]

[cmaglie]

This is Issue 177 moved from a Google Code project.
Added by 2010-01-09T22:52:06.000Z by dmel...@gmail.com.
Please review that bug for more context and additional comments, but update this bug.

Original labels: Type-Defect, Priority-Medium, Component-Core

Original description

From Mikal Hart: "I can officially confirm that NewSoftSerial (and really any software serial library) is
incompatible with the new Servo library that ships with Arduino 0017. The problem is that the new
Servo library, which is really quite cool, depends on reliable interrupts, where software serial
solutions require interrupts to be disabled -- at least for short periods of time. I discovered this
issue when I was trying to upgrade my Reverse Geocache box to 0017, and the only workaround I
could come up with was to downgrade the Servo library back to 0016."

http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1262033431

This could be a problem because I'd like to switch over to NewSoftSerial in future Arduino versions.