Pbp3

[tecleoalves]

Hello everybody.

I wonder if anyone has had experience aa compile a program with PBP3. I wonder if a program previously compiled in version 2.5 can have your code when compiling with reduced PBP3.

I wait for answers ...

[mister_e]

Hi and Welcome on the forum,
Not sure to understand your question, I feel a sort of language barrier in here. No problem, so let me guess.

Yes a code compiled in PBP 2.50 will also compile with PBP3, BUT if it's USB, you'll need to modify it to suit the next USB requirement since v2.60.

Reduced PBP3... this one I'm not sure of what you mean.. There's the full demo version which work for 30 days, this one no problem. But there's also The Gold and Experimenter version who have their limitations listed in the following link when you click on the Compare Edition tab.
http://store.melabs.com/cat/PBP.html

HTH

[HenrikOlsson]

Hi,
You mean if PBP3 is more efficient, producing smaller code than earlier versions?

My current project compiles to the exact same size (currently around 12k) between 2.6 and 3.0, no difference at all. I don't have 2.5 on my system so I can't compare.

/Henrik.

[tecleoalves]

Thanks Henrik, this is my doubt...

[aratti]

Question!

Page 58 of PBP3 manual state that DEFINE statement and all parameters associated should be always in upper case.

This should be read: " with the exeption of the define statement ", since microcode editor turn the word DEFINE into lower case.

Is the above correct?


Al.

[Darrel Taylor]

MicroCode Studio only changes the case that is viewed in the editor.
The characters saved to the file are exactly as you typed them.

But DEFINE is a PBP statement, and PBP is not case sensitive, so it doesn't matter how you type the actual word DeFiNe.
What comes after DEFINE is passed to the assembler unchanged and MPASM is case sensitive.
Any defines that PBP will be looking for are all UPPERCASE, so anything after DEFINE should be all UPPERCASE.

If you are using defines in your own assembly language code then anything after DEFINE must match the case that your ASM code is looking for. Those do not have to be uppercase, but it makes things easier if you stick with the standard convention of all uppercase.

[Sphere]

Just a query regarding deactivation of picbasic pro3, you say you have the ablity to deautherise a computer so you can move your copy of picbasic pro to another. But what happens when the computer has a hardware faliure. How do you deautherise that computer.

Thanks Sphere.