JohnSanderson wrote:
> Hello Tamas, Olin,
>
> ...
>
> Here is the content of my linker script:

That's not what I asked for, but since it's here I'll comment on it.

> CODEPAGE   NAME=vectors START=0x0  END=0x29 PROTECTED
> CODEPAGE   NAME=page START=0x2A END=0x7DBF

This is silly.  There is no reason to split up program memory this way and
good reasons not to.  Make it all one memory region.  Better yet, use my
linker script.  It doesn't do this Microchip stupidity and has the various
BANKn sections defined so that you can know the bank of variables at
assembly time.

> SECTION     NAME=TABLE_01   ROM=page
> SECTION     NAME=TABLE_02   ROM=page
> SECTION     NAME=TABLE_03   ROM=page
> SECTION     NAME=TABLE_04   ROM=page
>
> The only mods. I have made to it concern the Table_01...04 pages. These
> were forced on me by table read requirements.

Huh?  That makes no sense.  How does the table read mechanism force these?
I have used table reads many times and never defined named sections in the
linker file for that purpose.

> The unassigned GPRs are loaded from 0x000500+.
> These addresses are confirmed within the watch window but never show any
> value other than 0x00.

So you *can* see the contents of RAM locations past bank 1.

> But, still, why the heck can't I see the values no matter where the
> regs. are assigned?

This contradicts your statement above, so which is it?  Above you said it
was showing you 0, which is certainly a value, and now you say you can't see
any value.  This makes no sense.

Reading between the lines, I think I see what's going on.  You are not
thinking this thru very well and are too quick to blame the tools.  I
suspect the tools are working just fine and telling you correct and
important information, but you're not listening.  My guess is that the watch
window is working and showing you zeros because you forget to set the bank
in the code and are never writing to those locations.


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