On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 14:58 +0100, Matthew Rhys-Roberts wrote:
> As far as I can see, there's no built-in MOVLF (move literal to file) 
> instruction, at least on the 18F6680 I've been working on.
> 
> 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?

That's RISC. A large part of RISC is using the W register, so most
instructions have W as either source or target. With the PIC some
instructions were added due to the "controller" nature of a PIC core
(i.e. bsf type things).

TTYL

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