[PicForth] Re: Fixed jtable

[David P Harris]

Do you not want a more general table?  PICLIST has some code for this: 
http://www.piclist.com/techref/microchip/tables.htm
David (Harris)

Samuel Tardieu wrote:

>>>>>>"David" == David McNab <david at rebirthing.co.nz> writes:
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>David> As a side note - it would appear that the standard 'ftable'
>David> (from which I ripped code for jtable) also suffers from this
>David> limitation. Might be worth looking at having 'ftable' also
>David> adjust PCLATH.
>
>After looking at the code, I do not think this is needed. Such tables
>are always fully included in only one page (end-ftable checks
>that). It is composed of:
>
>TABLE:
>  ADDWF PCL,F
>  RETLW   CHOICE0
>  RETLW   CHOICE1
>    ...
>
>It means that to be able to call TABLE, one needs to have the PCLATH
>set to this page already. The situation in your jump tables is
>different, because you call other words from there, which is not the
>case in data tables.
>
>  Sam
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