Post a short sample of your DATA lines... On 28/10/2014 06:42, K S wrote: > 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 *Nicola Perotto Sistemi Informatici ed Elettronici skype: nicolap mob: +39 335 7162 582 tel: +39 06 916 502 732 fax: +39 0439 633 1191* --=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 .