The term "somebyte" is to be a single character eg "i" or"j" or"k" etc

Dennis




> -----Original Message-----
> From: JB [SMTP:jb@CI.GLENWOOD-SPRINGS.CO.US]
> Sent: Wednesday, 29 March 2000 12:06
> To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      16f84 macro error
> 
> To read the MPASM help file, this should work:
> 
> s_out   macro  somebyte
>                 movlw  somebyte
>                 endm
> 
> Given that macro, can someone tell me why I get this error:
> 
> Error[124]   C:\PROGRA~1\MPLAB\SEROUT.ASM 20 : Illegal argument (expected
> single character)
> Error[108]   C:\PROGRA~1\MPLAB\SEROUT.ASM 20 : Illegal character (×)
> 
> 
> FYI: Line 20 is the second line in the above macro.