This is a quick demo of a technique originally presented here

http://yogiken.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/c-register-access.pdf

with the original, admittedly pouty :), preamble

http://yogiken.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/on-publishing/

The technique, in a nutshell, lets you write high level register access statements with strong safety guarantees without sacrificing low level performance. Find a more complete example for an actual CPU here.

https://github.com/kensmith/cortex-from-scratch

If you need an ARM toolchain, this makefile might do the trick.

https://github.com/kensmith/build-arm-none-eabi-gxx

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