Hi Andrew (and the rest of you too :-) )


        Yeah, you're  right. I still froget the split address areas of the PIC,
and the way it uses internal RAM. I'm more used to a single addressing
area like (8085 or Z80) were we share the same addressing space bettwen
Program, Data and Stack.
        Althought my remark was more kiding than other thing, I own you an
apologie (and 20 bucs), sorry I didn't make sure my brain was in gear
before I engaged my mouth.

        best regards

        Jorge F


Andrew Warren wrote:
>
> 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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