In SX Microcontrollers, SX/B Compiler and SX-Key Tool, PJMonty wrote:

Peter,

Nice work!  I'm not a real user of macros with the SX (sorry James) so I had to check the manual to see what was going on with your code.  Clever stuff.  Apparently, the fine folks who originally wrote SASM must have encountered a similar circumstance to Mark.  Here's what the manual says (and for those who want to play along at home, it's on page 63) :

[b]The syntax for the LOCAL directive is
LOCAL <label>[, <label>].

It declares the labels named after the directive as private symbols. Private symbols are available only
inside a macro body. These symbols are private to each invocation of the particular macro and cannot
be referenced outside of the macro body.

The private symbol is used within a macro body just like any other label. Each time the macro is
invoked, SASM will assign each private symbol a unique name of the form ??0001, ??0002, ??0003, and
so forth. The unique name will appear in the listing file in place of all uses of the text of the private
symbol.

All LOCAL directives must appear immediately after the MACRO directive and before the first actual
line of the macro body.[/b]

Cool.

Thanks,
PeterM

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