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Using pointers as memory addresses, and arrays as pointers to their first element

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Choosing standard-library facilities that fit… Setting, clearing, toggling and testing bits with masks and… Telling stack, heap and static storage apart and detecting… Tracing what runs at power-on: reset vector, startup code,… Using classes and RAII so a peripheral or bus transaction is always… Writing short, safe interrupt handlers with volatile shared… Deciding when dynamic allocation is safe, and using static pool… Grouping data with structs and enums, and choosing fixed-width… Reading and writing memory-mapped registers through… Using pointers as memory addresses, and arrays as pointers to… Choosing integer types by width on 8-bit vs 32-bit… Converting between ADC codes and volts from resolution and… Handling text with char arrays and snprintf, and why… Telling bytes from text, reading a hex dump, and reading and… Reading bits, bytes, and hexadecimal as register values Using zero-based arrays safely, and telling local, global… Writing and calling C++ functions with parameters and return… Writing if/else, switch, while and for, and breaking out of a…

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