I hope interjecting is ok... I do it all the time! Much to the disapproval
of my wife...

Thanks!

Harold


>
> Harold,
>
> Good point.   You are right.  I stand corrected.   That's what I get for
> interjecting where I wasn't invited.
>
>
> 								Regards,
>
> 								  Jim
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@MIT.EDU [mailto:piclist-bounces@MIT.EDU] On Behalf
> Of Harold Hallikainen
> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 3:04 PM
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: RE: [PIC] MPLAB sim mode...#defines dont work?
>
> True, movff is a ram (or memory mapped I/O) to ram move, but the
> arguments are the addresses of what to move, not a literal. I don't
> think there's a movlf instruction that would move a literal into ram. I
> think you have to go through w...
>
> Harold
>
>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 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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