Hello,

Parallax had invented an alternative instruction set for PICs which was a
bit higher level of aggregation than the native one. E. g. your MOVLWF
looked as       MOV     reg,#const
which is a look-and-feel of '51 family. They were actually built-in macros
for their assembler. Then, Tech-tools had taken the whole stuff, and is
also available from their website www.tech-tools.com. I extensively use it
as I mean the programs are more compact this way. Just my personal
opinion. On the other hand, the compiler is small (< 20 kByte) and
extremely fast.

Regards,
Imre

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Ed Sutton wrote:

> I am a PIC 16F8 newbie. One of the first things I was thinking is start
> building an include file containining macros for making helpful "extended
> instructions".
>
> This must have been done a thousand times by PIC experts.  Can anyone point
> me to or send me any of their favorite macros?  Call accross page boundary
> macros etc.  I have not had much luck Googling for PIC macros.
>
> For example, I would like a macro to create an "extended instruction" to
> replace the following two instructions:
>
> ;M=a
> MOVLW a
> MOVWF M
>
> ;*****************************************
> ;* Macro to assign a literal to a memory location via W
> ;*
> ;* Note: Modifies W register
> '*
> ;*****************************************
> MOVLWF  macro  l, m
>                    MOVLW l
>                    MOVWF M
> endm
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -Ed
>
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