[fpc-devel] FPC micro controller

[Florian Klaempfl]

Jonas Maebe schrieb:
> 
> 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.

Indeed, but do you think we should create a new syntax to map C
bitpacked structures? Anyways, I'am using bitpacked arrays and records
already in my embedded stuff