David Dunn wrote :

> goto / define are picbasic.

And we should had guessed that ? :-)

> asm / endasm lets you do inline assembly with picbasic.

OK.

> i'm not sure what you mean by "starting in position 1" with
> respect to the retfie instruction.

MPASM doesn't "like" instructions in pos 1. I don't know
about picbasic.

> i've been told that the compiler automatically saves
> w/status/pclath on pics over 2k, and inspection of the
> resulting assembler code confirms this so i only need to restore them.

Since I don't know picbasic, I hadn't answered in the first place
if I'd known that you used that.

(Now, just getting your second reply to my post, it might have had
some value after all :-) )

Good luck !

Jan-Erik.

--
http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different
ways.  See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.