Igor,

I will start my reply by giving your several resources to answer questions
about the CCS compiler.  I am just a user  of the compiler, starting about a
year ago, and I am no expert.

1.   You can get technical support directly from CCS at

 ccs@ccsinfo.com  .  They are very helpful.

2. You can get technical help on CCS and anything related to a PIC
microcontroller by subscribing to the PIClist.  It is a nonmoderated mailing
list devoted to PIC microcontrollers and anything remotely related (Such as
cows, jokes about Bill Gates, Optical components, homemade nuclear weapons,
and general electronics<G>.)  Joking aside, it is the BEST resource for an
electronics guy.  It also has many Spanish speaking members, and has even
spawned a Spanish list ( I don't know the contacts for this list right now.)

To subsribe send a message to  LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU   with the body of
the message stating

SUBSCRIBE PICLIST

on a line by itself with a carriage return at the end of the line.  You will
get a detailed email in return telling you how the list operates.  SAVE THIS
MESSAGE because it tells you how to get OFF the list if you so desire.

3.  Back to your question.  I have trouble with the OUTPUT_HIGH(pin_xx)
command as well.  I think it has to do with the old read-write-modify bug
(MCHIP says it is a feature???!?!?!!!???)  of the PIC microcontroller.  CCS
translates OUTPUT_HIGH(pin_xx) into BSF PORT, PIN in assembler, which is
generally NOT the correct way to change a pin in a PIC.  If there is any
capacitance on the pin it will NOT go high.  Instead, try this:  Keep a
variable called MIRROR with your pin settings in it.  If you want to raise a
pin, do this:

#ASM
            BSF MIRROR, PIN
            MOVF MIRROR, W
            MOVWF PORT
#ENDASM

Or in C,

bit_set(mirror, pin);
port = mirror;



4.  BTW - how did you find out about me?


-- Lawrwence Lile



-----Original Message-----
From: 226808@cepsz.unizar.es <226808@cepsz.unizar.es>
To: lilel@toastmaster.com <lilel@toastmaster.com>
Date: Thursday, August 12, 1999 4:24 AM
Subject: Re: CCS compiler - shift Right


Hello,
    I am Igor a spanish student, I am using the CCS compiler, and I am
having serious problems with it, especially with the ports, I write
output_high(PIN_XX), and That pin is not set, though you can see in the
list code that the asm command to set it is in it, it is as if the
icepic ignored it, have you ever have that problem?. I still have
another problem, I increment a variable in the interruption rutine and
once I am back to my regular flux of code the variable that I have
incremented has reseted. Does anyone have an answer for this X-Files?. A
friend of mine used to work with the CCS compiler till it found these
kind of problems, he thinks, the CCS touched the variables we have
created and our initialitation.
    Well, hope you have an answer, because I am going nuts.
        Igor Gsmez Ortiz