C++ Hardware Register Access
summary
Claims a safer replacement for volatile derefs by modelling registers as templates with a mutability policy and a compile-time mask that yields compile errors for illegal ops (read-only vs write-only). Shows actual code and disassembly, reports reads compile to about 2–3 instructions and writes to 4–5 instructions. Demonstrates logging and desktop mocking of MMIO, requires optimization so policy calls inline, and links source and slides on the listed GitHub.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 1:02Common approach 1: raw volatiles
- 2:12Common approach 2: bitfields
- 2:51Features
- 3:12The proposal
- 3:51read
- 4:13write
- 4:53Usage
- 6:44Moar
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