> >         org     0x000A
> >         data    0x01, 0x02, 0x03, 0x04
> >
> > When you assemble it, starting at 000A, in code space, you get:
> >
> > 000A    0001
> > 000B    0002
> > 000C    0003
> > 000D    0004
> >
>You don't, on most PICs at least.  On the 16Fxxx and 18xxx series you can
>do
>"table read" to directly read program memory locations.  For most other
>PICs
>you can only store data in program memory by encoding it into the immediate
>field of some instructions.  RETLW is usually used for tables on these
>PICs.

More specifically, typically you access data tables through a call and
modification of a program counter.  For Microchip's MPLAB or MPASM, the
instruction for "data" that is used is "dt" followed by your data, which
will automatically be assembled into a data table, one line for each byte of
data.

;;Call with byte to retrieve in W (in this case, W in range of 0-3)
SimpleTable
      addwf PCL
dt 0x01, 0x02, 0x03, 0x04

--Andrew
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