Absolute in mB PRO??

[dejan_mrtt]

From the help of mBPRO:

Note: You must specify an even address when using the directive absolute.

Why is it that we need to specify an even address??

I am used to, and most of my code is written in this way:

I have lets say DWORD variable, and I also want to access its individual bytes separately. For example:

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Dim myX as Dword absolute 60
Dim myX_Lo as byte absolute 60
Dim myX_Hi as byte absolute 61
Dim myX_Hr as byte absolute 62
Dim myX_Hs as byte absolyte 63

In this way I have easier access to all 4 individual bytes of the "myX",

and without using functions like Lo(myX), Hi(... , Higher(... , Highest..

Actually using them I dont have access to individual bytes, which will affect the whole Dword. (which is required)

My question is = if we look the above declaration, there are two ODD addreses (not even ones), 61 and 63.

What is the solution?

[zristic]

There is no reason for not using the odd addresses, this is just a mistake in help (it probably referred to the ORG directive which has to be even for P18).