>
>That said, my first knee jerk reaction would be to shift one register one
>bit at a time into C, then shift the other one in from the same direction.
>Yes, I'm quite sure there are faster and smaller methods, but this method
>is both cheap to write and maintain.  I can probably write this loop
>(including comments of course) or the unrolled version in under a minute.
>Most of the time it wouldn't be in my customer's interest to spend 5
>minutes creating an optimized version.

That's what I hit on, in my AVR version. :)
I agree with you 100% on the reasoning. I also like to be able to debug my own code when I meet it again, a couple years later.

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