At 15:30 1998-01-26 -0800, you wrote:
>Morgan Olsson <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> wrote:
>
>> In a program example I learned that a simple dot can be used as
>> prefix for decimal radix. Like:
>>
>>     ten  EQU  .10   ;Works OK
>>
>> Are there such shortforms for other radix? (I'm using MPLAB 3.30,
>> and can only find clumsier things like d'157' for decimal 157)
>
>Morgan:
>
>Yes, there are...
>
>    Hexadecimal:
>
>        0xAB
>        0ABH (note that the first digit of the hex value must be
>              numeric; "ABH" won't work)
>
>    Binary:
>
>        10101010B (note that this only works if the default radix has
>                   been set to something other than hexadecimal)
>
>    Octal:
>
>        I could tell you, but octal on an 8-bit processor is an
>        abomination before God, so I won't.
>
>Many of us have wished for unambiguous radix specifiers (like a
>preceding "%" for binary or "$" for hexadecimal), but Microchip has
>decided not to add them.
>
>The bizarre, often-ambiguous trailing-B and trailing-H format is in
>MPASM only to provide compatibility with Microchip's earlier
>assemblers... Just as the PIC instruction-set mnemonics were
>apparently developed by someone who'd never seen a microprocessor
>before, that early assembler's radix-specifiers were apparently
>chosen in an absolute vacuum.
>
>-Andy
>
>=== Andrew Warren - fastfwd@ix.netcom.com
>=== Fast Forward Engineering - Vista, California
>=== http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2499
>
Wonderful!:
Just to set default to decimal (and maybe use . as prefix for decimal)
Using 10110101B for binary (small b work too?)
and 0xADB for hex

I hope Microchip will listen to their users whishes about mnemonics etc soon.
...And will Microsoft listen to theirs for that matter...
...Does "Micro" mean ... ?  ;)
/Morgan .O
Morgan Olsson, MORGANS REGLERTEKNIK, Sweden, ph: +46 (0)414 70741; fax 70331
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