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- From: andyr@wizzy.com (Andy Rabagliati)
- Subject: Re: notWrBx for character output
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:37:29 GMT
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- In article <DVARNEY.93Jan20133246@polaris.cv.nrao.edu> dvarney@polaris.cv.nrao.edu (Doug Varney) writes:
- >To hardware types,
- >
- > Which line is active on a CHAR write, is it notWrB3 or ...0?
- >
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- Which char ?
-
- for
- CHAR c :
-
- The Transputer is little-endian, so it would be WrB0. However, compiler
- optimisations often treat CHAR c: as a word, and so do a word write.
-
- [4]CHAR c :
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- c[0] := 'A'
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- Will definitely do a Byte Write, via WrB0.
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- Cheers, Andy.
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