Hi all,

I've seen a few different ways to do this, and I'm not sure if there
are better or worse ways on this one. I am working in XC8, and I want
to be able to set multiple bits in a register at once. In assembly,
I'd mask off the bits I wanted to effect with an AND, then OR in my
desired value.

For example, if I had a register called target, and I wanted to modify
bits 2 and 3, I'd first AND target with b'11110011', then take the
data I wanted to put in there (in this case b'11'), and OR target with
b'00001100'.

Can I combine these commands in C? Or is there a better way? I think I coul=
d do:

target |=3D 0b11110011;
target &=3D 0b00001100;

But what about:

target =3D (target | 0b11110011) & 0b00001100;

Thanks!

Josh
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