Re: PIC Assembler.

Eeyore wrote:

ian field wrote:

Does anyone have a link to any tutorials for PIC assembly?

Over the past few months I've been trying many permutations of Google search
string, but most of the tutorials I've found assume previous experience at
writing assy for microprocessors.

Why would you want to use assembly language ?

IIRC, there's a neat free high level language for PICs but since I don't use
PICs, I never bookmarked it.

Graham

Several reasons:

For _really teeny_ bits of code it's easier to just write in assembly than to deal with the C runtime environment.

For _really fast_ bits of code you'll almost always get more speed out of assembly than compiled C.

For _really odd_ bits of code you often can't do things in C at all, or you get absurd levels of code bloat compared to what you can do in assembly.

There's no better way to learn how a microprocessor really works.

Many micro-based projects require just a bit of assembly programming to really work well, and you can't do that unless you've got someone on your team who can work in assembly. Even when they don't, understanding what the processor is doing 'underneath C' can be invaluable for debugging.

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