>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).
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>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...

YOu need to use NOPs to keep the optimizer away.  Either that or, like they
say, you NEED to link them after separate compilation.

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

I've asked for it!  A nice "#pragma NOOPT" like other compilers have.

>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!

HACK is right!

Andy

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