> Van: myke predko <myke@PASSPORT.CA>
> Aan: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Onderwerp: Re: pseudo-asm
> Datum: dinsdag 12 mei 1998 16:02

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> I have been steering beginners, when I've been asked, away from using
these
> pseudo-assembler instructions because while they do make programming the
> PIC easier, they make understanding the bit operations less intuitive.

Did you ever try to 'skip' a macro-instruction ?

  btfsc {register},7  ;Is it negative
  negf {register}      ;Yes : make it positive
  ;  negf := comf and incf together

Boy, do you have a lot of fun !

By the way : Pseudo-instructions and macro's are not the same ...
You _need_ pseudo instructructions like 'org' , 'db' , 'dw' and 'dt'.

> On these points, what do other people think?  When I see a snippet using
the
> "psuedo-assembler" or PAX assembler, for the most part I can figure out
what
> the instructions are doing, but I don't find them more efficient to use
for
> coding with at all.

That's about what i'm thinking too.

> myke

Greetz,
  Rudy Wieser