Thomas,

'Instructions' like IF ...ELSE, WHILE, MACRO, etc. are _not_ machine
instructions. Instead they are instructions to the assembler.

For example, in the following segment:

    IF     A == 3
    movlw    0x10
    ELSE
    movlw    0x20
    ENDIF

Only one of the two movlw instructions will even be included in the program,
depending on the value, at assembly time, of the symbol 'A'.

Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems
(contract development of high performance, high function, low-level
software)

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