Both Andrew Warren and Clyde Smith-Stubbs have recently made
comments on the notation (object.bit) used for bits and port
declarations in MPC.

This notation originated in our C6805 compiler to take advantage of
the some speciallized instructions that the 6805 has. At the time
we were only interested in developing code for the 6805. Like the
bit addressable features of the 8051 it was a processor specific
feature. When we created compilers for other processors we were
retained the notation to allow application developers to port
their code between target famillies.

Since last fall we have been supporting a super set of the various
bit/bits notations including ANSI structure bit fields. This is a
standard part of each new release of our compilers. The next release
of MPC has this support.

Walter Banks
http://www.bytecraft.com