Re: want an sdcc howto?

On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 21:45 -0400, Byron A Jeff wrote:

> I think at odds is too strong a turn of phrase, David. I believe that 
> everyone on the assembly side of the discussion believes that there is an
> advantage to having a reading level understanding of PIC assembly. With that
> in hand, you can converse and do conversions between the high level language
> and PIC assembly as needed.

That's a good summary BAJ.  With a compiler that may on the odd occasion
produce some duff code it is important to be able to look at the .asm
files a see why the compiled code doesn't do what you expect.  If
nothing else you need to be able to see if changing your C code to try
and avoid the compiler bug has worked or not. 

> > I'd really like to see more interest in sdcc on this list, because it's
> > the only viable free/opensource high-level language compiler that spans
> > both 16F and 18F, and deserves a place as the 'reference' high level
> > language for PIC.

I'm just about to get my programmer working with 16bit parts so I'll be
interested in seeing how SDCC performs.  I took a look at the code it
produced for 14bit parts a month or so back :-( 

Peter