ICCV7 C Best or Better way to get a pin input state.

[TJHJ]

I have got to be making this harder than it is, but I cant seem to find a pre defined method in the include files for getting a pin input state. Have I just been missing it? If not the only way I can seem to come up with to get a pins state from INA seems clunky.

Here is how I am currently doing it.




int getPinState(int pin)
{
int pinMask;

pinMask = 1 << pin;

if ( (INA & pinMask) == pinMask)
{
return 1;
}
else
{
return 0;
}


}





It just seems like a waste of operations to get a pin state.

Any suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated as always.

TJ

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[Mike Green]

Because C, like Spin, treats a non-zero value as true, you could say:


int getPinState(int pin) {
return INA & (1 << pin) }


This is the way it would be done in assembly or Spin. Alternatively, you could have:


int getPinState(int pin) {
return (INA & (1 << pin)) != 0 }


You could also use the C macro preprocessor to do:

#define getPinState(pin) ((INA & (1 << pin)) != 0)

and let the compiler's optimizer improve the efficiency, particularly if pin is a constant.

Post Edited (Mike Green) : 3/29/2009 5:20:40 PM GMT

[virtuPIC]

Right, Mike. That's the easy way to get the pin value as boolean true or false. If you need the value as int 1 or 0 - maybe you merge several pin values or use it for masking - then it gets only a little more complicated:


int getPinState(int pin) {
return (NA & (1 << pin)) >> pin;
}


This should only be one more instruction in compiled code.

If pin is a constant the following code to be faster on the prop if the compiler does some optimization:


#define PIN 3
int getPinState(int pin) {
return (NA & (1 << PIN) ? 1 : 0;
}





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[mpark]

To get 1 or 0 this might be a little faster:


int getPinState(int pin) {
return (INA >> pin) & 1;
}

[jazzed]

Nice optimization mpark. Remember that all function calls have overhead. The macro like Mike mentioned may make code bigger if used several times, but will be faster than a function ... just watch out passing values to some macros and check your friendly C reference for problems. #define GETBIT(pin) ((INA >> (pin)) & 1) /* pin >= 0 && pin < 32 */

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[TJHJ]

Thanks all, mpark that works perfectly for what I wanted.

Thanks again,
TJ

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