what is the meaning of H'0001'

It's whatever the language translater specs it to be, but I'd guess that
it is a 16-bit unsigned that's equal to decimal 1.

It's so that there is no misunderstanding of the base of the number. In this
case, it doesn't matter, but 98 decimal is different to 98Hex etc.

So the question still remains, do you think this represents a hex
number?

Its strange because its in a pic program as follows:

equ clk H'0001'
bcf  PORTA, clk

now the bcf means clear the bit in the file register PORTA, which is a
4 bit register, and the bit to clear is represented by the H'0001' so
it would look like bit 1 needs clearing, but why use the H'0001'
notation? when it could just be written as bcf PORTA,1

However H'0001' does look like a 16 bit hexadecimal number, but hex is
normally represented as e.g. FFh or 0xFF

Or maybe i've just got it wrong, can anyone shed any light on this?

Thanks
Steve

snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com says...

Yes I would look at it and think a base16 number.



Because you can change the value of clk to match the hardware if there
were future changes AND it makes the code more readable.  We now know
that the code is toggling an output that is (most likely) a clock line
of some sort.


Depends on your assembler.