Post by thread:macros for "structured assembly" ?

Hmm. As a processor based on fixed length instructions and SKIP based comparisons, the PIC should be well suited for a variations of macros I first saw on PDP-10s 15 years or so ago. They look like: skipe ; Skip if equal to zero, or on any other condition %if ; a macro ;code to execute if the instruction skips ; etc ; etc %else ;Another macro ;code to run if no skip ; etc %end Note that %if and %else generate jumps, and %end simply defines a symbol. the challenge with most assemblers is getting each use of the macros to generate a separate set of symbols. If anyone would like these, I can dig up PDP-10 and MASM versions of the macros and see if I can convert them to the microchip PIC assembler ("it's the one with macros right?" he asks sheepishly, fearing to admit that the disk is still in the shipping package...) BillW

William Chops Westfield <spam_OUTbillwTakeThisOuTCISCO.COM> wrote: >I can convert them to the microchip PIC assembler ("it's the one with >macros right?" he asks sheepishly, fearing to admit that the >disk is still in the shipping package...) Bill: Don't bother unpacking the disk; it's undoubtedly an old version of the assembler. Instead, call the Microchip BBS and download the newest version. I'm using 1.21.09, but I think the latest released version is something like 1.21.00. You'll like it much more than whatever version you have. -Andy -- Andrew Warren - .....fastfwdKILLspam@spam@ix.netcom.com Fast Forward Engineering, Vista, California