I see where you're coming from, Bob.  A sledge hammer isn't the right tool
for finishing trimwork.

The right tool for the job.  What a concept!

Andy


At 07:35 PM 11/12/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Olin,
>
>I know you go on and on about using the linker. However, I have recently
>done one job on an '876 that just plain would not have worked using a
>linker. Timing was very tight and I had to carefully place code in just the
>right places so that PCLATH would be set up right at various points. Note
>that I don't just mean in the right 2K pages which would be reasonable with
>the linker, but actually aligning code properly across 256-byte boundaries.
>With a little discipline it really isn't that hard to manage.
>
>btw: as I mentioned in a previous post, variable length macros is not a
>function of whether or not you use the linker, but rather whether the macros
>expand to the same size on both assembly passes.
>
>Bob Ammerman
>RAm Systems
>
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