On 29 Jul 2009, at 18:47, Daniël Mantione wrote:
Op Wed, 29 Jul 2009, schreef Desmond Coertzen:
This is my first question / suggestion: With byte sized variables
being the
smallest accessible variable in the PC architecture, will we see a
language
extension to provide bit accessible variables for the micro
controllers?
Do you mean bitpacking?
type nibbles=bitpacked record
low_nibble=0..15;
high_nibble=0..15;
end;
This is not usable for accessing particular bits of microcontroller
registers, because the internal format of a bitpacked record is
undefined and can change at any time for any reason.
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