>    How do you reconcile your "$-1" infinite loop with your "$+1"
>    two-cycle NOP?
>
>    The PIC's program counter is incremented before the current
>    instruction is executed, but the ASSEMBLER's "program counter"
>    isn't.  Perhaps you've confused the two?

I stand corrected.

"goto $-1" will jump to the instruction preceding the goto
"goto $"   will be an endless loop
"goto $+1" will jump to the next address (I was right about this one, anyway).

                                        ===== Parallax PIC16Cxx Assembler v4.7 =
====


     1    0000-                                 device  PIC16C73
     2
     3    0000-                                 org     0
     4
     5    0000- 2800                    start   goto    start
     6    0001- 2802                            goto    stop
     7    0002- 0000                    stop    nop
     8
     9    0003- 2802                            goto    $-1
    10    0004- 2804                            goto    $
    11    0005- 2806                            goto    $+1
    12
    13    0006-                                 end


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