> Van: Dave Johnson <djohnson@SIRIUS.COM>
> Aan: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU

Hello Dave,

> Onderwerp: Re: bit wise logic functions
> Datum: woensdag 10 februari 1999 15:26
>
> >>         if (T0IE && T0IF)       - this compiles fine
> >This is a Bit-wise AND.
> >>         if (T0IE & T0IF)                -this doesn't but it should
being
> >This is a Logical AND.
> Whoah, I think you got those backwards. The first is a logical AND, the
> second is a bitwise AND. (I'd be awfully surprised if this particular C
> compiler decided to reverse the meaning of those two operators.)

You are quite right.  And I _did_ look it up in the book first :-(   What I
tried to tell (but was non too clear about) was that T0IE is not a Bit, bit
a _index_ to a bit.  The compiler tries to do a _Compile-time_ and.  So it
can never work with the bits they (T0IE, T0IF) are _referring_ too ...

Greetz,
  Rudy Wieser