I just got a Clear View Mathias at work. Now, I know
that there are a number of CVM users out there, and I was
wondering if I should take advantage of the assembler
that comes with it. So I thought that I'd ask:

  * How many of y'all use the CVASM16 assembler on
    a regular basis?

  * If you do, what are the advantages/disadvantages?
    Do you have trouble getting code samples? CVASM16
    takes MPASM instructions but places restrictions
    on them; if you feed it MPASM code, do you find
    that you frequently have to hand process the code
    before you use it, or does most code work with
    minimal tweaking? Do you find that if you modify
    code for CVASM16 and then try to take it back to
    MPASM that you have to do any back-porting? If
    you stick to the CV-specific "8051-like" instructions,
    again -- are code samples rare? Do you have much
    trouble porting code samples from other 8051 chips?

  * If you've considered/tried CVASM16 but stuck with
    MPASM (if you just went to using C or BASIC or
    something that's another matter), what shortcomings
    of CVASM16/advantages of MPASM led you to that
    decicsion? If you use MPASM on the CVM, do
    you find this putting you at any sort of
    significant disadvantage?

I've been using MPASM for some stuff, and for some
stuff (including a commercial package -- emWare --
that comes as MPASM source) I'll probably have to
continue using MPASM for some time. But I was just
trying to decide if it was worth the trouble to
learn CVASM16 as well.

TIA,
--Bob

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