[avr-libc-dev] Re: [avr-gcc-list] Re: What Happened to the sbi() and cbi() Macros????

[E. Weddington]

Victoria Welch wrote:

> On Monday 31 January 2005 13:36, you wrote:
>  
>
> Wasn't intending to flame, just that all the similar 
> arguments I have seen along these lines in the past have 
> come from, predominately, academics and were generally 
> opposed by people working in industry.  If this is not the 
> case, then it is a wonderful break in the chain (no pun 
> intended :-).
>
>  
Most academics do not run open source projects. They release wonderful, 
unfinished source code, and then go write a paper about it and maybe get 
it published.

Here's an example:
<http://www.cs.utah.edu/~regehr/stacktool/>

> > I'm sorry you got a hold of some bad examples and you
> > started to write your code that way.
> >    
>
> Well, me too, but am I going to be the only one?  With all 
> the code out there using those I'd bet not :-).
>
>  
So far there haven't been too many others complaining about it.

> When I first wandered into this wonderful world, I had not a 
> clue about bit manipulation in C.  
>  
Here's a primer:
<http://www.avrfreaks.net/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=8764&highlight=programming+101>
Go down to the post that starts with "Programming 101". It should be 
highlighted.

HTH
Eric