AVR-Chat

Hi guys,

I played with AVR GCC over the weekend a bit to try and optimize some
code I had written in Codevision that wasnt executing fast enough to
my liking. As a matter of interest, with just very minor but clearly
important optimizations, I took code that took 57us to execute @ 10MHz
down to 24us in codevision, and then by porting it to AVR GCC I got it
down to approx. 11us, awesome ! 

But . . . Is there a easy way in AVR GCC to turn a port pin on / off
based on the value of a variable.

Example:

CODEVISION:

unsigned char random_value; 

while(1){

  random_value = Get_Random_Value();  //returns 1 or 0 "randomly"
  PORTA.1 = random_value;
}

that compliles and works fine in codevision, but in AVR GCC ive had to
do the following:

unsigned char random_value;

while(1){

  random_value = Get_Random_Value();
  if (random_value) sbi(PORTA, PA1);
  else cbi(PORTA, PA1);
}

was just wondering if there is a cleaner way to accomplish this
without using a if.

Thanks 
Hein B
Auckland, New Zealand.