PIC sequential variables

[throbscottle]

Hi folks
I having a go a double dabble (or it's reverse) to convert an 8 digit unpacked BCD to binary. Rather than assign a variable name to each digit, I think I can do this:
If I use

digits idata
    digit db 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8

myprog code
...
end

I think I can loop through each digit by incrementing fsr and accessing indf, but how do I address the first (or any other, for that matter) digit?
Also, if I use

output res 4    ; it needs to end up a 32bit word, whatever

can I rrf my way through "output" instead of having 4 variable names to manage?

Many thanks

 

[Pommie]

Both should work. However, decide first whether you're using big or little endian. I prefer little endian - I.E lowest byte stored first.
You can then do,

    rrf  output+3,f    ;shift msbyte
    rrf  output+2,f    ;shift next byte
    rrf  output+2,f    ;shift next byte
    rrf  output,f    ;shift lsbyte

Edit, you probably want to clear the carry before the shifts.

I used double dabble a few years ago but wrote it in C.

Mike.

 

[throbscottle]

That's great, thanks Mike.
It occurred to me after I posted the question, I need to change individual digits of the BCD input (which comes from a keypad). Do I use the same notation? eg digit+1, digit+2 etc?

 

[throbscottle]

Now I get

 Illegal directive (IDATA)

And yet it's perfectly happy with udata
Wahhhhhh....