I'm shocked no-ones come up against this! On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 3:05 PM, K S wrote: > Hi list. > > I'm using MPASM 5.4 and MPLINK 4.38 for a PIC18F87K22 and trying to get > some text strings into memory efficiently. > > After a CODE_PACK directive I find that DB does pack bytes into > consecutive memory locations as expected but DATA does not. Instead it > insists on storing characters within 16bit words with a high zero byte. I= 'm > currently working around this by incrementing pointers twice instead of > once but it's rather inelegant and a waste of memory. > > Has anyone experience this or can otherwise help? > > TIA. Kris. > --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .