[En-Nut-Discussion] H8/300 Question: Print Format Specifier Forsize_t

Bengt Florin bengt at florin.se
Thu Mar 18 08:36:21 CET 2004


Jan wrote:

>I suspect that situation with ARMs is simialar, i.e. I *suspect* that
>int in THUMB mode is 16 bit.
>But I don't know ARMs, until then I have seen them only on photos and in
>a few commercial devices. :-)

As thumb mode is only a condensed ARM code, data accesses are still 32 bit.
So it's still a 32 bit machine but with 16 bit code access.
This cripples the architecture alot, but reduces code size and increases
speed
when executing from 16 bit memories.

Yepp, that's right I don't like it.

/bengan




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