Hi Friends,
Has anyone come up with a decent workaround for using inline
assembly in HiTech C when the optimizer screws it up? Compiling the
assembler part to a separate module without optimizing is not really a
good option(that's the recommended thing to do, and it's stupid).

For instance, if I want to count loops until pin 4 of PORTC drops and have
it drop through on overflow, I'd do this:

aa1     decfsz  _count
        btfss   7,4     ;that's portc pin 4
        goto    aa2
        goto    aa1
aa2     more stuff here...

then the optimizer gets it's hands on it and does:
aa1     decfsz  _count
        btfsc   7,4     ;note btfss is now btfsc
        goto    aa1
        more stuff here...

Needless to say it no longer has the timeout working. There is no "keep
hands off" directive.

What I've been doing is adding a nop to make space and then loading the
hex code into MPLAB and patching the code back to my original. Hack!

Anyone?

Thanks,
Bob