Hello My problem is that i want to create a file that contains some subroutine and call these routines from an other files that contains the main program. So in the main file i write this lines
NbMod EQU 2 SRC EQU 1000H DST EQU 1100H PUBLIC NbMod PUBLIC SRC PUBLIC DST
in the other file i write
EXTRN Number(NbMod) EXTRN Number(SRC) EXTRN Number(DST) XSEG AT Source ; Error absolute expression required SRC_RAM: DS 16 * NbMod ; Error Relocatable expression XSEG AT DST ; Error absolute expression required DST_RAM: DS 16 * NbMod ; Error Relocatable expression
you can show the message error in the right of each line but when i do these lines
NbMod EQU 2 SRC EQU 1000H DST EQU 1100H
in the same file ( i mean the file that contains the subroutine) i haven't this problem i don't understand why since i declare the Public in the main and EXTRN in the subroutine files
Thank you
"is it not the case that EQU in assembler is equivalent to #define in 'C' - so it doesn't work with PUBLIC/EXTERN...?"
No. With the original Intel A51 assembler (and Keil's modern equivalent), equates can be made public and can be accessed from other modules by extern.
See my above comment with regards to relocatable expressions.
The manual: http://www.keil.com/support/man/docs/a51/a51_st_equ.htm http://www.keil.com/support/man/docs/a51/a51_st_extrn.htm does show the use of PUBLIC with an EQU and EXTRN and NUMBER(xx) for a symbol that matches any memory class.
But as IB Shy's links shows, there's often a lot of special cases involved in things.