Datasheet

Emulator User’s Guide for MPLAB X IDE
DS52085A-page 138  2013 Microchip Technology Inc.
Anonymous Structure
C30 – An unnamed structure.
C18 – An unnamed structure that is a member of a C union. The members of an anon-
ymous structure may be accessed as if they were members of the enclosing union. For
example, in the following code, hi and lo are members of an anonymous structure
inside the union caster.
union castaway
int intval;
struct {
char lo; //accessible as caster.lo
char hi; //accessible as caster.hi
};
} caster;
ANSI
American National Standards Institute is an organization responsible for formulating
and approving standards in the United States.
Application
A set of software and hardware that may be controlled by a PIC
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microcontroller.
Archive
A collection of relocatable object modules. It is created by assembling multiple source
files to object files, and then using the archiver to combine the object files into one
library file. A library can be linked with object modules and other libraries to create
executable code.
Archiver
A tool that creates and manipulates libraries.
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange is a character set encoding that
uses seven binary digits to represent each character. It includes upper and lower case
letters, digits, symbols, and control characters.
Assembler
A language tool that translates assembly language source code into machine code.
Assembly Language
A programming language that describes binary machine code in a symbolic form.
Assigned Section
A section which has been assigned to a target memory block in the linker script file.
Asynchronously
Multiple events that do not occur at the same time. This is generally used to refer to
interrupts that may occur at any time during processor execution.
Asynchronous Stimulus
Data generated to simulate external inputs to a simulator device.
Attribute
Characteristics of variables or functions in a C program that are used to describe
machine-specific properties.
Attribute, Section
Characteristics of sections, such as “executable”, “readonly”, or “data” that can be
specified as flags in the assembler .section directive.