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   > Version 7 of TP/BP also accepts assembler between   
   >   
   > asm   
   > ....   
   > end;   
      
       Indeed it does, and that's the way I usually do it (I'm basically an   
   assembler programmer), but that does not give you the "insert hex code   
   here" feature of an inline macro; it results in the same stack   
   manipulating code over-head as any other procedure/function.   
      
       Inline macros are a very special case, that's worth looking into,   
   and experiment with. Preferably using the debugger to watch the result,   
   learning how to make use of the way variables and return results are   
   passed to and fro procedures/functions in TP/BP.   
      
       We all know how much is won, by making use of the fact, that a value   
   is already in a CPU accumulator, rather than accessing comparably slow   
   RAM, don't we? 8-)   
      
       With a big asm part, it's better to use the asm/end version, that   
   you suggest, because then you get the usual call to one instance of the   
   code, but up to some 25-30 bytes of code, you gain a lot of both speed   
   and size by using inline macros.   
      
      
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