Firmware Fundamentals — question 3 of 10
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A peripheral control register packs several settings into different bit ranges - say bits 3:5 select a clock divider, while other bits control unrelated features you must not disturb. Describe precisely how you'd change just the clock divider bits in C without touching anything else, and tell me one concrete way this read-modify-write sequence can silently go wrong on real hardware.