Wrapping code

[Christopher4187]

What happens when you try to compile this code?

HSEROUT ["iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACEAAAAkCAYAAAAHKVPcAAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAAAARnQU1BAACxjwv8YQUAAAAJcEhZcwAADsQAAA7EAZUrDhsAAArtSURBVFhHVVhpb1XXFfVfaACPb579bGYwHvBsP9vPfp6NzGDjCcJghkClpKSIUmVom1aKKqVRUtqilhZwmANUplUSNUOhqIRIQYKUqimhUMKPWF1rn3fd5MN9w7nn7",_
"nHttfe5BQFfCXylhSgrWYIyfgf1n79DZYV2+UsWI+Avht9XjJLixQj5eb+siFehffvzv/Ws31dke7Wu/wFeYe3ht3TovtbtHuXpW3sL7AEK9Ba8Db5SGsKNft2jUd8U4hkdpkFSYJcMpqxSGi0Dy/i81oNU7CvV+hJTrHvOGN6XgVwrcMp58cay8ti3LBzMtlJA3hgKichT/tcV5jNBKvxpf9Z+",_
"B3hfUXMRXIKgKXGetjfWIhQopTOLbe3F2RkXzXxUCmThkf07EeYmGRMOliHIkAZpYUCecnOYys/um8KpTAPme1pweO1yRIsW4RdVK/GnjhacymUQ4f+/",_
"PjeO8z2NmG9bjxNtDWaY5CmFumSAIqNIRLgeDpaafEaCG2lAeSyE8kTYLD5MS20tGbHNIVp8elMvHk0P4el4H25PDuBMWx2ut9fjK659NDOKBPFyqa0WD2cG8HhzD66PdOP1nZNmRJqyo6EyRlnKS1FBueXxsMmW4wWyyuW7GCEuet4LYHYpBQzjq001+HQgi/sbe3FxpBMJGn+hdT1uTg/",_
"XibVX6mVPtMoHvzotJcMCrfzp2Bbp97K+POKB7WvEOxPa9oc9//AEEBNtPX0IZcAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC",34,"/>"]

[Darrel Taylor]

Compiling that code ... generates a "FATAL ERROR: Internal: Locate could not find nCmd = 32174784"

But it has nothing to do with "Line Continuation" and the "_" underscore.
There are simply too many characters in the HSEROUT command.

If you break that into 2 HSEROUT statements, it compiles fine ...

HSEROUT ["iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACEAAAAkCAYAAAAHKVPcAAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAAAARnQU1BAACxjwv8YQUAAAAJcEhZcwAADsQAAA7EAZUrDhsAAArtSURBVFhHVVhpb1XXFfVfaACPb579bGYwHvBsP9vPfp6NzGDjCcJghkClpKSIUmVom1aKKqVRUtqilhZwmANUplUSNUOhqIRIQYKUqimhUMKPWF1rn3fd5MN9w7nn7",_
"nHttfe5BQFfCXylhSgrWYIyfgf1n79DZYV2+UsWI+Avht9XjJLixQj5eb+siFehffvzv/Ws31dke7Wu/wFeYe3ht3TovtbtHuXpW3sL7AEK9Ba8Db5SGsKNft2jUd8U4hkdpkFSYJcMpqxSGi0Dy/i81oNU7CvV+hJTrHvOGN6XgVwrcMp58cay8ti3LBzMtlJA3hgKichT/tcV5jNBKvxpf9Z+",_
"B3hfUXMRXIKgKXGetjfWIhQopTOLbe3F2RkXzXxUCmThkf07EeYm"]

HSEROUT ["GRMOliHIkAZpYUCecnOYys/um8KpTAPme1pweO1yRIsW4RdVK/GnjhacymUQ4f+/",_
"PjeO8z2NmG9bjxNtDWaY5CmFumSAIqNIRLgeDpaafEaCG2lAeSyE8kTYLD5MS20tGbHNIVp8elMvHk0P4el4H25PDuBMWx2ut9fjK659NDOKBPFyqa0WD2cG8HhzD66PdOP1nZNmRJqyo6EyRlnKS1FBueXxsMmW4wWyyuW7GCEuet4LYHYpBQzjq001+HQgi/sbe3FxpBMJGn+hdT1uTg/",_
"XibVX6mVPtMoHvzotJcMCrfzp2Bbp97K+POKB7WvEOxPa9oc9//AEEBNtPX0IZcAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC",34,"/>"]

If you add a single character to the first HSEROUT ... it will fail.
Because there are already 512 characters. Apparently, the maximum it can handle.

[Christopher4187]

If you break that into 2 HSEROUT statements, it compiles fine ...

I know. That's what I've been doing but now it's becoming a problem because there are so many HSEROUT statements. A 2kB image takes up 17kB of code space. Is there a better way to send an image that doesn't take up so much code space with HSEROUT statements?

[Darrel Taylor]

I know.

Really!

... it's becoming a problem because there are so many HSEROUT statements.

You could have an HSEROUT statement for every character, and it wouldn't use a single word more than putting everything in a single HSEROUT.
That's just the way HSEROUT works.
It calls a macro for each character, it doesn't matter which HSEROUT statement calls the macro.

A 2kB image takes up 17kB of code space. Is there a better way to send an image that doesn't take up so much code space with HSEROUT statements?

Store it in FLASH ... a 2kB image will use 2kB (on 18Fs).
Read it back with READCODE.