Nick Hale wrote:
> yeah, sorry, RA6 is an output, but i was using it as in internal flag
> too. just tried with a normal flag which isn't an output pin and it
> seems to work.

Using a port register bit as a internal flag can be dangerous if you don't
fully understand and consider the read-modify-write issue.

> This leads me to a further question...  Why can't I just check UARTs
> own 'transfer complete' flag (PIR,5)?

I don't know.  That depends on what you are trying to do, which is not
clear.


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