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

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 20:29, Jamie Morken wrote:
> What does that work out to in assembly?  A cbi/sbi assembly instruction is
> 2 clock cycles.  I still don't understand why these instructions would be
> taken out of winavr, they obviously are useful for them to have been
> included as opcodes in the AVR! :)

The compiler still generates those instructions..
The PORTA &= 0x1 type of construct is portable to other compilers and 
architectures without any changes.

As you say, if it really bothers you, you can use inline assembly.

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