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Title: Rubbish
Review: One of the most important things an embedded assembly programmer coming into C needs to know is how to set up absolute memory addressing without resorting to compiler-specific features or assembly language. This book resorts to compiler-specific #pragma directives to fit its chosen chip and OS. The fact that we might want to use _no_ OS and a non-Bytecraft compiler is not something that seems to have crossed the author's mind. Much better to shell out the extra ten bucks for Ted Van Sickle's _Programming Microcontrollers in C_. That one is Motorola-oriented but at least has the common decency to explain how to set up ports and peripherals within the ANSI C language proper.
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