[fpc-devel] Problem with bitpacked records and STM32F107 Controller

[Sven Barth]

Am 11.12.2013 08:43, schrieb Michael Ring:
> The strb command seems to be the problem, documentation from STM states:
>
> Each I/O port bit is freely programmable, however the I/O port 
> registers have to be accessed as 32-bit words (half-word or byte 
> accesses are not allowed).
>
> So, is there some way to make the bitset operations word-aligned? 
Better say 32-bit aligned to avoid confusion. Words in Pascal are 16-bit 
although I know that you are talking about the CPUs word size...
> Are there any good reasons for not doing so?
What when you really have a byte that you want ot access? Then using 
32-bit writes/reads could(*) result in unnecessary cycles.

* I don't know about ARM especially, but I know that for e.g. the m68k a 
32-bit store is more expensive than a 16-bit or 8-bit store

That said I don't have a solution for your specific problem except by 
doing it by hand.

Regards,
Sven
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