Jinx wrote:
> display  macro   var          ;load TBLPTR with string address
>          clrf    tblptru

Bad idea.  Some day you'll be on a PIC 18 with more than 64Kb and this will
break.  If you're going to make a general purpose macro, spend the extra
instruction and load TBLPTRU right.

If you want to get fancy, you can use assembly time conditionals to either
clear TBLPTRU or load it, depending on whether the current PIC has a large
or small program memory.  My PIC development environment defines the
constant PROGADRB just for this purpose.  It is the number of bytes required
to hold a full program memory address.  If it's 2 or less, just clear
TBLPTRU.  If it's 3, set it properly.

> ;data strings padded to even number of characters ...

Why?  There is no harm in having a table start on a odd address.  I don't
understand the problem you are trying to solve here.


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