Posted on May 17, 2011 at 15:03Hi,
the C version would give the same result, but with a slower execution (because the compiler calls a general function that adds 1 to a long value). I guess the developer wanted this specific operation (increment by 1) to execute as fast as possible because it happens very often...
On a side note, note that this kind of variable (long) is not atomic on the stm8 -> every time there is an access to it interrupts should be disabled.
