Reading STATUS on a 18F422

[pfournier]

It seems I can't read the STATUS (ALU) register in C.

Seems I have to use something like this:

#asm
movff status,status_temp
#endasm

I can then use status_temp.

Trying to read STATUS in a C staement just gets me 0x07.

Is this correct? or am I doing something wrong.

-Pete
_________________
-Pete

[PCM programmer]

[rnielsen]

Maybe I'm stupid, but I can't find a 18F422 on Microchip's site. Would you happen to mean 18F4220?

[pfournier]

OOPS meant 18f452, (never said I could type)

my definition, all the registers are done this way

char status;
#LOCATE status= 0xfd8


I would do something like this:

printf("%x", status); //or some other operation

Instead I do this:

int8 status_temp1;

#asm
movff status, status_temp1
#endasm
printf("%x", status_temp1); //or some other operation

Thanks.
_________________
-Pete

[rnielsen]

I've had success in doing it this way:

#byte STATUS = 0xFD8 // global declaration

printf("%X", STATUS); // inside main()

Ronald