On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:34:04AM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > > > Can we similarly promise or say something for accesses of the > > containing struct as a whole? > > I hadn't considered those cases (when would you want to copy a > *peripheral* ?) Should be the same as before, I would think.
Not the peripheral, just one register. e.g. you might read a control register into a struct of the same (32-bit) type, and then read multiple fields from the copied struct. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery