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Firmware Coding in C

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Starting in this chapter, I will delve into the softer side of embedded systems. The next three chapters cover C/C++, the build process, and a little bit of embedded OS.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    ISOCPP stands for C++ Standards Committee, the international standardization working group for C++.

  2. 2.

    TYPE_ALIGNMENT is defined differently in Ref [5] as FIELD_OFFSET( struct { char x; t test; }, test ). The side effect of this implementation is that compiler will give out warnings if it is used together with C_ASSERT.

  3. 3.

    Refer to your computer science text book if you want to find a more pedantic definition of “critical section”.

  4. 4.

    Sometimes people also put the build number or OEM ID as the third part of the version number.

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    Changyi Gu

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Gu, C. (2016). Firmware Coding in C. In: Building Embedded Systems. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1919-5_6

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