Harold,

 
Your suggestion surely should work, but the movff instruction is a
register to register insruction,
So it should move the contents of 'farf' into 'test' without going
through 'w'.  At least in theory.

                                                               Regards,

                                                                Jim
 

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From: piclist-bounces@MIT.EDU [mailto:piclist-bounces@MIT.EDU] On Behalf
Of Harold Hallikainen
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 2:17 PM
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: Re: [PIC] MPLAB sim mode...#defines dont work?


> Since I dont have my target hardware here, I write and test the code 
> in the simulation mode.  I thought, having a #define would work to set

> a value for a variable but it doesn't seem to be working.  For example
>
>   #define   farf  d'5'
>
>   when I go do a
>
>   movff  farf,test
>
>   test just gets 0x00
>
>   So i did
>
>   movf  farf,w
>
>   and WREG gets zero (least its consistant)
>
>   I'll try it again when I have hardware to watch in the debugger, but

> curious is it because there really isnt hardware, the #define doesn't 
> store?  Figured it would just stick it in ram someplace


It looks like you're putting the contents of location 5 into test and
into w. If you want to put a 5 in test or w, do something like this:

movlw farf
movwf test

Harold
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