Hi All:

      I'm one of the relative newbies to the PIC ( and microcontrollers
in general ), here, though I come from 15 years in applications
development in C/C++/Java etc.  One thing I've noticed is that the
vast majority of asm code I find relating to the PIC is all written
in absolute mode, and not relocatable mode.  Is there any particular
reason for that?  It seems more than a little odd to find extensive
web pages full of projects, in which the same code is simply duplicated
over and over in multiple copies of files, some of which are obviously
just earlier versions that never got updated.  In one of the books
I'm reading, the author explicitly states that he never uses relocatable
mode, because the linker is too slow, etc.

   Anyhow - is there some inherent advantage of absolute mode that
I'm missing?  It seems like just having a library of routines available
that can be easily source controlled and made availible to multiple
projects makes far more sense than the endless use of include files.

Thanks,
   - Rich

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