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A volatile topic

Submitted by Kirk Zurell on Thu, 2008-03-20 15:43.

Here's an interesting writeup about the C keyword volatile.

Our demos: odd setup issue

Submitted by Kirk Zurell on Tue, 2007-12-18 21:51.

Have you tried to install one of our demos only to find a completely different setup program starts to run?

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C6808

When is a branch not a branch?

Submitted by Kirk Zurell on Tue, 2007-09-25 19:45. | |

I recently got an interesting code sequence out of the compiler.

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Neat XOR trick

Submitted by Kirk Zurell on Mon, 2007-09-24 13:20.

This is a neat trick using XOR, the most mysterious of the logical operators. Best of all for embedded, it requires no temporary locations.

//swap two values in place
if(x < y)
{
  x = x ^ y;
  y = y ^ x;
  x = x ^ y;
}

Et voila!

Fuzz-C

Fuzzy Logic zeitgeist, with statistics

Submitted by Kirk Zurell on Fri, 2007-06-29 15:34. |

I decided to sift through the cache of alerts ... to get a better idea of the zeitgeist of fuzzy logic. ...[F]uzzy logic is familiar enough to be used intelligently or casually, and, it turns out, to be chronically misrepresented as well.

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