On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Peter Dufault <dufa...@hda.com> wrote:
>
> On Aug 11, 2014, at 17:02 , Gedare Bloom <ged...@rtems.org> wrote:
>
>>> +#ifdef ARM_MULTILIB_VFP
>>> +       /* CPACR is located at address 0xe000ed88 */
>>> +       ldr.w   r0, =0xe000ed88
>> Maybe the constant should be provided by a header file? The comments
>> are nice though. And I didn't see anything else in the rest, although
>> my arm asm is rusty.
>>
>>
>
> When used in a single place in a hardware specific C file I prefer a 
> constant.  When I'm suspicious I'm comparing definitions against the 
> reference manuals looking for transcription errors and I'd rather avoid the 
> indirection.  Obviously it needs an appropriate constant (which Sebastian 
> provides).
>
True, and the comment is pretty clear. So, either way. I guess I am
surprised the constant is only used in this one place.
-Gedare

> Peter
> -----------------
> Peter Dufault
> HD Associates, Inc.      Software and System Engineering
>
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