>FINALLY I realized that the problem was that the default base in MPASM
>isn't decimal.  A few dozen d'...' later (including on the argument to
>the macro) and now it gets the right answer.
>
>Wow, that sucked.  Don't let it happen to you.

And the conclusion is ???

always specify the radix of each variable. Never rely on the default. The
stories I have heard of Fortran programmers who ran into this because
someone changed the defaults somewhere are myriad.

I have developed the habit of always putting a decimal point on a decimal
variable in PIC assembler (this is the alternative to d'...') to ensure that
it gets properly converted, even though I use Olin's environment where he
sets the default to decimal. The effort involved in using 0x... or .ddd is
absolutely minimal, automatically 'comments' your code so others understand
what you expect, and make the default radix irrelevant.

here endth today's lesson :))))

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