> Don't forget that you have to go three or four deep in manual
> "pointing."  I've been playing with the Luminary Cortex M3 parts
> a bit, and you go from data sheet to Cortex architecture document
> to ARM7 architecture document to ARM Architecture document before
> you get a full picture of what "assembly language" is supposed to
> look like (I hope.  I haven't actually found an ARM ARM.  I think
> it's a book you have to buy.)

I don't think that is much different to the newer PIC16F datasheets and
the midrange reference manual.

> I'm not sure that the gnu assembler (gas) that accompanies the C 
> compiler is really well-suited toward writing code in pure assembly
language.

I have not written that much ARM asm, but who needs to? Mixing ams and C
is IMHO a more fruitfull way.

> And assembler seems foreign to the ARM crowd.  One of the things you
> DO find at Luminary is an extensive library of primitives for dealing
> with all of their on-chip peripherals (and 200+ pages of documentation
> for the library!), all written in C.

Mix asm and C!

Wouter van Ooijen

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