Well, at least there is a "MOVLF h'00'" instruction... :-) But for other values, no. Jan-Erik. Dario Greggio wrote: > Matthew Rhys-Roberts wrote: > >> I know it's hardly a problem to load the literal into W first, then move >> W into the desired file, but why would they fail to design such a useful >> one-step function? > > a matter of RISC architecture... I guess :) > MOVFF (file to file) came out in 18F parts, was not there on earlier ones. > > You can write a macro for MOVLF: the rationale is that such a macro will > still, probably, be faster than a MOVLF-like instruction on a 80x86 CPU... > > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist