>         I've copied the config bit setting stuff right out of p18f452.inc
and
> put it in config.asm as below. During linking, I get the following error:
>
> Error - Absolute code section '.config' must start at a word-aligned
> address.

The __CONFIG directive produces code in a special section named .CONFIG.
The Microchip docs are very sketchy about all this, but the assembler does
not set an absolute address for this section.  This must be done in the
linker control file.  You have to look in the data sheet for whatever PIC
you are using and find where the config word is, then set up a .config
linker section fixed at that address.  I haven't done a project yet with an
18 family PIC, so here is my linker control file for the 16F876 as an
example:

//   Linker control file for the PIC 16F876 processor.
//
CODEPAGE NAME=config START=0x2007  END=0x2007 //special processor config
word

CODEPAGE NAME=code0      START=0  END=0x7FF //code page 0
CODEPAGE NAME=code1  START=0x800  END=0xFFF //code page 1
CODEPAGE NAME=code2 START=0x1000 END=0x17FF //code page 2
CODEPAGE NAME=code3 START=0x1800 END=0x1FFF //code page 3

DATABANK NAME=bank0  START=0x20  END=0x6F //register bank 0
DATABANK NAME=bank1  START=0xA0  END=0xEF //register bank 1
DATABANK NAME=bank2 START=0x110 END=0x16F //register bank 2
DATABANK NAME=bank3 START=0x190 END=0x1EF //register bank 3

SHAREBANK NAME=globalram  START=0x70  END=0x7F PROTECTED //global regs, bank
0
SHAREBANK NAME=globalram  START=0xF0  END=0xFF PROTECTED //global regs, bank
1
SHAREBANK NAME=globalram START=0x170 END=0x17F PROTECTED //global regs, bank
2
SHAREBANK NAME=globalram START=0x1F0 END=0x1FF PROTECTED //global regs, bank
3

SECTION NAME=.udata_shr RAM=globalram //global memory mapped to all register
banks
SECTION NAME=.BANK0 RAM=bank0 //for registers explicitly in bank 0
SECTION NAME=.BANK1 RAM=bank1 //for registers explicitly in bank 1
SECTION NAME=.BANK2 RAM=bank2 //for registers explicitly in bank 2
SECTION NAME=.BANK3 RAM=bank3 //for registers explicitly in bank 3


There are a lot of double-slash comment delimeters above.  I'm using MS
Outlook Express, and sometimes it decides on its own that a double slash
could only be the start of a URL and "helfully" inserts the proper URL
syntax.  Does anyone know how to shut off this obnoxious behaviour?


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