On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Joe P. Farr <joe.farr@kcsl.uk.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the response BillW.
>
> The reason is that I'm not using assembler for this, and the read will
> slow things down, and it's a waste of CPU time if I don't want the data,
> hence hoping for something like a quick bit set.
>
> Joe
>

When I was using UART and I had to flush the buffer I did something
like this on m 16 F 886:

typedef unsigned char byte;

byte rx;

rx = rcreg;
rx = rcreg;
rx = rcreg;

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