----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Hencke" <simap2000@YAHOO.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 2:13 AM
Subject: Re: [PIC:] Nested if macros


> Does anyone know how MChip treats the extended
> instruction set as single instructions? In the docs it
> mentions that the extended instruction set are just
> macros, but the debugger steps over them as if they
> were single instructions (IIRC). It does this to even
> the the instructions that have 2 equivelent
> instructions listed.
>
> - Ben

Because, contrary to mChip's claims they are not really macros. Rather they
are alternate mnemonics that just happen to assemble to the same binary code
as some other mnemonic. They are treated by the assembler no differently
that the standard mnemonics.

Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems

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