Re: Understanding PIC machine code

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 04:15:00 +0000 (UTC), Wing<wing@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>Byron A Jeff <byron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> You really really don't want to write your own assembler.
>
>Of course he does! If for no other reason than learning to write an
>assembler. :)
>
>Have fun!

Writing a cross-assembler is quite easy, writing a native assembler
running in a PIC would be a bit more challenging :-).

Paul

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