This might be stupid or asked at least a thousand times, but:

In MPASM, how do I allocate a FILE REGISTER which is LOCAL to a macro.
At the moment I use something like

        cblock
                _file_1#v($)
                _file_2#v($)
        endc
        local send_shift_register = _file_1#v($)
        local bit_counter         = _file_2#v($)

This is crude, but it works. Sadly I can not hide this ugly construct within
a macro, because that would make the local local to THAT macro, not to
the 'calling' one. Isn't there a more direct way?