Re: notWrBx for character output

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From: Andy Rabagliati
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:37

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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?
>

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 :

c[0] := 'A'

Will definitely do a Byte Write, via WrB0.

Cheers,    Andy.
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