Hi all.

I'm working on a project where I'd like to store a long sequence of
"steps" in program memory. These would be set at compile time, I'm not
using the self programming features of the chip. I've done this in the
past, but I recall that things didn't work exactly as I'd expected, so
I'm looking to verify that my expectations were accurate.

For my current project, there will be 4 (or possibly 7) bytes per
step, and 255 steps. That's a minimum of 1024 bytes in memory, which
should be fine, I have plenty left over. I'd like to be able to
maximize the space, and here's where I start to need help. Last time I
did a memory table it was for converting a digit to a pattern for
display on a seven segment LED. This was pretty easy as there were
only 10 works that I wanted to store. I did it like this:

--
LEDTable code_pack
 ; Data table to convert BCD to 7 segment, with some additions

     db     b'00111111'          ; 0
     db     b'00000110'          ; 1
     db     b'01011011'          ; 2
     db     b'01001111'          ; 3
     db     b'01100110'          ; 4
--

I was able to read this just fine using the TBLRD* command. Not too
bad for a few entries, but for over 1000, I'd like to avoid having to
give each their own line. I remember trying this method:

--
     db     b'00111111',b'00000110', b'01011011', b'01001111', 		; 0, 1, 2,=
 3
--

And having it fail. This might have been before I learned about
code_pack though.

So in theory, should I be able to use the "on one line" method shown
above? I'd like to do a separate line for each step, then have the 4
(or 7 entries) on each line. Alternatively I might go for 4 separate
blocks, so that I can use the same index and add it to 4 different
bases to get the values.

Thoughts?

Thank you!

Josh
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