Location of CON,VAR, OBJ

bdickens

As I write the code, I dutifully put all my CON, VAR, and OBJ statements together. I've noticed in some other folks code that they have CON blocks all through the code. Does it make a difference ?

I've always assumed that the compiler wouldn't want multiple blocks but it seems to be fine. It would make the code more readable if the CON and VAR blocks were close to the routines that really used them the most. But I don't want to sub-optimize memory.

Under what circumstances does it matter ?

Thanks

Mike Green

It doesn't matter.

You can have multiple CON, VAR, and OBJ sections. The VARs are all grouped together and the variables are sorted by the compiler so that the LONGs come first, then the WORDs, then the BYTEs in order to avoid waste from alignment issues.

bdickens

Thanks. That does make life somewhat clearer.