boolean notation IAR Kickstart c compiler

Unfortunately, the 'C' programming language does not provide a binary notation.

This has nothing to do with IAR or MSP430 - it is the standard 'C' language.

A bit of googling (and searching this site) will turn up plenty of macro tricks, if you want, but it is generally far better to define symbolic symbols with meaningful names for the bits and bit patterns that you need...

ClaudeArpin said:

This is a simple question, I looked in all the doc but cannot find the answer.

Boolean notation is zero for false and non-zero for true. usually true is defined -1 and false of course 0 then.

YOu most likely meant "binary notation", and as Andy has explained, thsi is not part of the C standard, even though some few compilers have bothered providing their very own, non-portable, noncompliant notation for binary numbers.

Tom Torfs has released a nice macro implementation to the public domain.

His macros basically turn something like

B8(10010101) into B8_(0x10010101LU) and then do some math on it to return an 8 bit value.

For 16/32 bit there are B16 (xxxxxxxx,xxxxxxxx) and B32 likewise.

Comes close.

Of course you can do

#define 0b00000000 0
#define 0b00000001 1
#define 0b00000010 2
etc :)

Jens-Michael Gross said:

Of course you can do

#define 0b00000000 0
#define 0b00000001 1
#define 0b00000010 2
etc :)

No - #define symbol names may not begin with a digit!

Andy Neil said:

No - #define symbol names may not begin with a digit!

But since it takes a few years to type them all in manually, I guess it will never try to compile and therefore nobody will see the error message :)

After all it was meant as a joke. 64k defines surely won't speed up the compile process.