On 30 Nov 2003 at 19:43, Herbert Graf wrote: If anyone has any ideas about MY prob, please chime in. Maybe I won't have to make another list attempt at finding a solution before I head off blindly in another direction, to wit, PICAnt or C17/C18. > > > > Just curious - when you say you "know what to look > > for," does that mean you have a workaround? > > Nope, it means I try and stay away from that compiler. When I do use it and > I see something "weird" the first thing I do is check for incorrect bank > bits. FWIW I have never seen the problem when targeting an 877. I personally > find this way of "restricting" a free tool quite despicable, if they don't > want you using it for something they don't want they should put a CONCRETE > statement about it not working correctly, the fact that they "hide" this > flaw in such a subtle way means I'll probably never buy their compiler. Too > bad for them because I have become quite used to it and was actually > considering buying it. TTYL > I agree with your sentiments and what a bummer. I can't remember if I downloaded that thing AFTER seeing a note about being able to get it to do a 628 (same prob for 648, right?) or if I just didn't catch that restriction at all. I think the former. I don't download stuff without checking support info. Ho hum... The one thing that really torqued me after reading the manual and playing with it is that I can't get MPLINK to link it's object files. I tried converting to coff and maybe cod, and MPLINK can't read the header. If I don't convert to coff, MPLINK says it's an invalid coff format or something. I thought coff was standard. I've gotten coff files for x86 assembly using NASM to link with modules written in C++ using Borland's compler/linker and I'm pretty sure it would work in VC++, I just have no need to try. Why PICCLite is so lame... Best suggestion (?! more like ONLY suggestion) I got from the HiTech forum was to use PICCLite's asm and forget MPLAB. yeah. I wonder if PICAnt is the answer. I'd like to find out because I'd like to get a little C code working from time to time. I just need to be able to link asm from MPLAB with C code without deviating from the MPLAB standard. You know, no psects and all the PICCLite specific stuff. GNU? BRs, Mike -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.