Hi all, I have an assembly question. How can I make code like this work:

getbyte:
  movlw  TBASE
  addwf  Index,w
  movwf  PC

;; later

TBASE db 'o'
      db 'k'
      db 0

This does not compile because TBASE is not defined when it is used (obviously)
on the first pass. I thought that the assembler does 2 or more passes as needed
when such things occur. Apparently I am wrong.

What can I do to make this work as intended ? I am using absolute mode (no
comments on this please, the code must run in a 12C508 eventually so moving this
to fancy asm+link is a complete waste of time imho and I will avoid it if I can).

So, the question is: Is there a way to make this work in absolute mode, or not ?

thanks,
Peter P.

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