Vincent Vega wrote :

> Hello everyone,
> According to the linker script that comes with MPLAB 
> ver7.01(16f870.lkr or 16f870i.lkr) all the RAMs are unbanked.

Well, no RAM location is only accessable from a *single* bank.

> There's no DATABANK sections in the 
> script, only SHAREBANK.

Maybe becuse all RAM are accessable from 2 or 4 banks.

> According to the datasheet that's not the case, there are two 
> blocks of general purpose registers (0x20 to 0x7F and 0xA0 to 0xBF)
> which are indeed banked.

All RAM locations are accessable from (at least) two banks.

> The included with MPLAB template f870tempo.asm won't even 
> compile properly with the supplied script.
> Any ideas why is it so, any particular reason?

An error inte the tamplate maybe ? :-)

Regards,
Jan-Erik.



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