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MPLAB® XC32 C/C++ Compiler User's Guide for PIC32M MCUs
MPLAB® XC32 C/C++ Compiler User's Guide for PIC32M MCUs
  1. Home
  2. 3 How To's
  3. 3.3 Writing Source Code

  • Notice to Development Tools Customers
  • 1 Preface
  • 2 Compiler Overview
  • 3 How To's
    • 3.1 Installing and Activating the Compiler
    • 3.2 Invoking the Compiler
    • 3.3 Writing Source Code
      • 3.3.1 C Language Specifics
      • 3.3.2 Device-Specific Features
      • 3.3.3 Memory Allocation
      • 3.3.4 Variables
      • 3.3.5 Functions
      • 3.3.6 Interrupts
      • 3.3.7 Assembly Code
    • 3.4 Getting My Application To Do What I Want
    • 3.5 Understanding the Compilation Process
    • 3.6 Fixing Code That Does Not Work
  • 4 XC32 Toolchain and MPLAB X IDE
  • 5 Command-line Driver
  • 6 ANSI C Standard Issues
  • 7 Device-Related Features
  • 8 Code Coverage
  • 9 Supported Data Types and Variables
  • 10 Memory Allocation and Access
  • 11 Floating-point Support
  • 12 Fixed-Point Arithmetic Support
  • 13 Operators and Statements
  • 14 Register Usage
  • 15 Stack
  • 16 Functions
  • 17 Interrupts
  • 18 Main, Runtime Start-up and Reset
  • 19 Library Routines
  • 20 Mixing C/C++ and Assembly Language
  • 21 Optimizations
  • 22 Preprocessing
  • 23 Linking Programs
  • 24 Embedded Compiler Compatibility Mode
  • 25 Common C Interface
  • 26 C Implementation-Defined Behavior
  • 27 C++ Implementation-Defined Behavior
  • 28 Deprecated Features
  • 29 Built-In Functions
  • 30 Built-In DSP Functions
  • 31 PIC32 DSP Library
  • 32 PIC32 Debug-Support Library
  • 33 DSP Wrapper Functions
  • 34 ASCII Character Set
  • 35 Document Revision History
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3.3 Writing Source Code

This section addresses issues pertaining to the source code you write. It has been subdivided into sections listed below.

  • C Language Specifics
  • Device-Specific Features
  • Memory Allocation
  • Variables
  • Functions
  • Interrupts
  • Assembly Code

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