At 14:26 7/09/99 +1000, you wrote:
>Dan Creagan wrote:
>
>> So, Don, are you going to post the updated Microchip source for the
>> Stamp code?
>
>  That is what he promised in an earlier message.  I was going to do
>much the same but ... so much to do!  Still happy to do some of the
>commenting though (if you like Don?).
>
>Tony Nixon wrote:
>
>> for example
>> movb pa0,z
>> now translates to
>
>> BTFSS status, z
>> BCF status, pa0
>> BTFSC status, z
>> BSF status, pa0
>
>  Is that *exactly* what the Parallax assembler does?  Must be.
>
>  Cute and "high-level", but also rather deceptive, takes a whole *four*
>instructions with clock cycles to match.  Not always good to make you
>think certain operations are easy when they actually aren't.  IMHO
>--

Yes Paul, one one way you are quite correct in that one must be aware of
things that are macro like, but it does make the assembled code look and
read better, or to use your wording "Cute and High-level". Also this is
along the lines of what many DSP assemblers do (Analogue Devices for
example). I just can't wait for OPPS assemblers for 8 bits!


Dennis




>  Cheers,
>        Paul B.
>
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