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07/25/11 11:19
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#183031 - He covered that
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Per Westermark said:
The ARM processor does not have bit variables. It does not have any processor instructions working on a single bit, so there is no meaning to have a hard-coded specific bit variable data type.

Christoph Franck said:
There are ARM architectures that include single-bit manipulation, like the Cortex-M... series.

The so-called "bit-banding".

Per covered that:

Per Westermark said:
The only thing special is that some ARM chips have a special memory-mapping feature where some integer variables also have an alias address where each individual bit in the integer can also be accessed at a different integer at the aliased address. This allows the source code to write to a virtual integer variable that will result in a single-bit access in the actual container integer. Look closer at this feature in Cortex-class ARM chips. Also, some Cortex-based chips have some integer variables and port registers that can be written to where the least significant bits of the access address will work as a mask to specify which bits of the port register that should be accessed.




List of 12 messages in thread
TopicAuthorDate
Bit variable in KEIL Arm            01/01/70 00:00      
   Hw bit variables normally not available in processors            01/01/70 00:00      
      Not quite true.            01/01/70 00:00      
         He covered that            01/01/70 00:00      
   Choice of forum            01/01/70 00:00      
   bool            01/01/70 00:00      
      bool is nothing specifically to do with single-bit variables            01/01/70 00:00      
         Not wrong            01/01/70 00:00      
            Yes - wrong!            01/01/70 00:00      
               bit != bool even if nominal storage range is same            01/01/70 00:00      
   Bit Fields            01/01/70 00:00      
      Wrong answer for this question            01/01/70 00:00      

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