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MPLAB ® C COMPILER FOR
PIC24 MCUs AND dsPIC ® DSCs
USER’S GUIDE
Glossary
Access Memory (PIC18 Only)
Special registers on PIC18XXXXX devices that allow access regardless of the setting
of the Bank Select Register (BSR).
Address
Value that identifies a location in memory.
Alphabetic Character
Alphabetic characters are those characters that are letters of the arabic alphabet
(a, b, …, z, A, B, …, Z).
Alphanumeric
Alphanumeric characters are comprised of alphabetic characters and decimal digits
(0,1, …, 9).
Anonymous Structure
An unnamed structure.
ANSI
American National Standards Institute is an organization responsible for formulating
and approving standards in the United States.
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 7 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.
Attribute
Characteristics of variables or functions in a C program which are used to describe
machine-specific properties.
C
A general-purpose programming language which features economy of expression,
modern control flow and data structures and a rich set of operators.
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