Jorge Ferreira <jorgegf@mail.telepac.pt> wrote:

> Who about:
>     DB      msg1    "My string",0
>
> I've using this kind of construct for years! Or am I missing
> something here; isn't this allowed on PIC programming ?

Jorge:

Sure, it's allowed... But it doesn't do what my code does.  In fact,
it doesn't do anything particularly useful at all, unless you're
using a PIC17Cxx.

"DB" stores the string in the PIC's program space; my code stored the
string in the PIC's registers.

If you wanted to store the string in the program space, you could do
so using the "DT" directive.  The code to access the string would
involve direct modifications of the PIC's program-counter... If you
go back and re-read the first half of my message to which you
replied, you'll see that I gave an example of program-space string
storage that does precisely that.

-Andy

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