>> From: Rick Miller <rick@DIGALOGSYS.COM>
>
> Well, I checked out John Favata's free C compiler for the PIC16C84.
> Now, I've got good news, so-so news, and bad news...
>
> The good news is:
>   o It's available in full C source.
>   o It's a port of Small C, so it's well modularized.
>
> The so-so news is:
>   o It's only targeted towards the PIC16C84.
>
> The bad news is:
>   o It generates pseudo-8051 assembly code which (as far as I know)
>     is only usable with the Parallax PIC16/17 assembler.  :-(
>

It's worth exactly what you paid for it!    8-)

The PIC cc compiler was a pet project to convert Small C to
generate PIC code. It was targeted to PIC16C84 because
there was enough ram on chip to implement a small stack. Porting
the compiler to the 5X family may take a little more work because
of the limited stack depth and paging problems....

The compiler was posted as a starting point for people to hack
into whatever C compiler tool they need. As it is, it can be
converted to generate MPASM instructions easily.

I do pattern recognition research for a living, not compilers... 8-)

jf