Jim Main <jmain@cqm.co.uk> wrote:

> > [Quoting me:]
> > The interrupts only work when the PIC is operating in slave mode;
> > they don't help you at all when you're using the PIC in master
> > mode.
>
> Ha-Harrr! but the 1994 data book (page 2-456) says that "Master mode
> is supported by interrupt generation on the detection of the START
> and STOP conditions.  <cut>
>
> ..so I thought interrupts might be involved somehow..

    Sorry, Jim; my mistake.  I forgot about the Start/Stop Detection
    interrupt flags.

    They don't strike me as being particularly useful, though... Has
    anyone on the list ever saved time or trouble using this
    hardware "support" in a single-Master system?

    -Andy

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