Ok; yea, I have that.

The last assembly language macros I wrote were for the 8051, must have=20
been at least 5-6 yrs ago.

Thanks, Olin.

Mark Skeels
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On 2/4/2011 10:11 AM, Olin Lathrop wrote:
> Mark E. Skeels wrote:
>> I want to write some assembler macros for a PIC24 project I am working
>> on using ASM30, which comes with the C30 suite.
>>
>> I am having a devil of a time finding reference info for the macro
>> language implemented in the assembler.
>>
>> Can anybody point me in the right direction?
> "MPLAB Assembler, Linker and Utilities For PIC24 MCUs and dsPIC DSCs User=
's
> Guide"
>
> Surely this can be found on the Microchip site somewhere.  I keep a copy =
on
> my disk and don't remember exactly where I found it, but it shouldn't be =
too
> hard to locate.
>
> Once you read this manual, you will see that the macro language is rather
> primitive.  It does have a few things MPASM doesn't have, but is also
> lacking some important features.  For example, there is nothing equivalen=
t
> to the MPASM #v() construct.
>
> I mostly use my preprocessor (PREPIC) instead of the ASM30 macro processo=
r.
> It has rather more sophisticated capabilities, and not just for macro
> handling.  PREPIC is included in the PIC Development Tools release at
> http://www.embedinc.com/pic/dload.htm.
>
>
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