Regarding your suggestion about using sublw, be aware that sublw (and addlw),
 are not available in the 12CXX devices.

CIAO - Martin R. Green
elimar@bigfoot.com

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From:   Mike Keitz[SMTP:mkeitz@JUNO.COM]
Sent:   Sunday, September 28, 1997 2:18 PM
To:     PICLIST@mitvma.mit.edu
Subject:        Re: Complementing Carry

On Sun, 28 Sep 1997 09:43:11 -0700 "Michael S. Hagberg"
<mhagberg@MAIL.PRIMARY.NET> writes:

>to complement any bit you can do the following. note: the carry bit
>(bit 0)
>is in the status register (ram location 3).
>
>        btfsc   3,0     ; status,c
>        bcf     3,0
>        btfss   3,0
>        bsf     3,0

This code will not work.  The bit will always be set at the end
regardless of its value at the start.  In order to make something like
this work, the "set if clear" part (the last 2 instructions) needs to be
bypassed if the bit was cleared because it was set by the first 2
instructions.  Complementing a bit without affecting W requires lengthy
goto instructions.

Others have already posted these 2 good solutions:
        movlw   1               ;xor mask
        rlf     file,f          ;Carry bit into file.0
        xorwf   file,f          ;Complement copy of carry bit
        rrf     file,f          ;Put data back, complemented
carry.
John Payson suggested using FSR, actually any file register can be used
as long as its intermediate value won't be examined by an interrupt
routine.  After this routine, the data in the file register will be the
same as it was at the start.

And the most direct solution of all (I beleive due to Andrew Warren):
        movfw   STATUS          ;Get status bits into W
        xorlw   1               ;Carry bit is bit 0 - complement
it.
        movwf   STATUS          ;Put complemented bits back
This one has the possible advantage of not affecting the Z bit.

Now to contribute something which I hope is useful and original.   I
hvaen't seen any posts about using add or subtract to complement carry.
Subtracting 1 from 0 will clear carry, but subtracting 0 from 0 will set
it.  So use something like this:
        movlw   0
        skpnc
        movlw   1               ;Now W=0 if C =0, W=1 if C=1
        sublw   0               ;0-W, sets C if W=0

By using a known-zero location, could be simplified to
        rlf     always0,w       ;C into LSB of W
        subwf   always0,w       ;Same as sublw 0, since f always 0.

Using subwf rather than sublw makes the code compatible with 12-bit PICs.
 But it's hard to make this one conditional, since both instructions
affect carry, skipping only one of them will not leave C unchanged.
Using 2 conditional skips, the routine would only be 4 words, the same
length as the shortest other conditional ones proposed.