thanks Olin
because I never seen it before I thought that it was a recent notation, but
now I will not use it
regards
        Luis

-----Original Message-----
From: Olin Lathrop [mailto:olin_piclist@EMBEDINC.COM]
Sent: 13 February 2004 12:43
To: PICLIST@mitvma.mit.edu
Subject: Re: [PIC]: Instructions


Luis Moreira wrote:
> I was having a look at a program that came with my PICDEM 2 PLUS
> board and I foud this kind of instruction I never used before or seen
> used: "movlw .5" , what does the " .5 " stand for ?

That's an obsolete notation for decimal.  The assembler still supports it -
for now.  If you want to explicitly indicate decimal radix, use the D'5'
syntax.


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