Re: [avr-gcc-list] efficiency of assigning bits

[E. Weddington]

Royce & Sharal Pereira wrote:

> > >
> > 3. IIRC, a constant defaults to an *integer*, which on the AVR is 16  
> > bits. It does not default to an unsigned char. So you still have the  
> > same problem and you will still have to typecast the constants.
>
>
> I dont know...check this code result (from the .lss file):
>       PORTD= (PORTD & ~1) |(1<<2) |(1<<3);
>  924:    82 b3           in    r24, 0x12    ; 18
>  926:    8e 7f           andi    r24, 0xFE    ; 254
>  928:    8c 60           ori    r24, 0x0C    ; 12
>  92a:    82 bb           out    0x12, r24    ; 18

That just means that optimizer was able to correctly determine that the 
sizes of the constant operands would fit in an unsigned char.

Sometimes the compiler has put out some strange stuff that shows that 
some operands of the bit operators are getting promoted to an integer 
(16-bit on the AVR).

Eric