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On Wed, 2001-08-22 at 01:13, Tony Nixon wrote:
> Olin Lathrop wrote:
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> > Then that is the first thing they should learn.
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> How? Considering they may not have the foggiest notion that they exist.
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> > This is very bad programming practise that needs to be exterminated imm=
ediately when noticed.
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> Sorry, I don't agree.
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> How can you get past defining labels in assembler? You have to know how
> to do this and recognise that by doing so you may create errors.
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> Sure, defining register labels is probably not the best way to go, but
> from a learners perspective it probably makes a great deal of sense, and
> much more so than trying to jump in at the deep end. Upon opening up the
> two example ASM files supplied with MPLAB, a beginner would probably
> look blankly wide eyed at it and start looking at basic code instead. I
> also couldn't find anywhere in MPLAB that explains about the *.inc files
> supplied with the package so how is a beginner supposed to know.
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> While I can't speak for the person, I would imagine that Amaury has
> already learned that it's easy to make mistakes and there are other
> methods available to help create source code.

you're right, I found, corrected my mistakes thanks to the [helpful]
messages on this list.
Also, I would tell M. Lathrop that he could have checked the headers on
the email I sent and found out the following:

X-Mailer: Evolution/0.12.99+cvs.2001.08.18.07.08 (Preview Release)

which points to my use of Gnome [on Linux] and that his remarks on the
use of MPLAB would not apply to me.

I am personally using gpasm [on linux] which is source compatible with
mpasm and am currently investigating the presence of the said include
files too.

Please, note that I started programming in Assembly language at the age
of 9 (I am now 26) on my TRS-80 Model 2 and that I am used to making
this kind of Mistakes.

To come back on the subject, the [corrected] program has been tested by
a friend of mine on windows (I don't have any of this at home) and has
been found to work (I have modified it a lot since the message though,
no more bit test/setting things...)

Now, I am investigating the programming of serial communications on
Linux (I'm probably not that far, but it does not work yet.)

Sincerely

Amaury

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