Rick Miller wrote:

> 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.  :-(
>
> I don't have anything against Parallax, nor against their
> (probably spiffy) assembler... except for the fact that I don't
> have a copy.  It's not free, is it?  I certainly wouldn't want
> to spend money on an assembler that's generally considered less
> capable than the free one (MPASM, the *standard*) from Microchip.
>
> Is there any way to convert Parallax-ish pseudo-8051 assembler
> into standard (MPASM) code?  Does anyone know of any documentation
> available which would help me re-code "pic_cc" to output normal
> PIC16C84 instructions???
>
> Rick Miller, Design Engineer  (and local "Internet Guy")
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>
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Your right, MPASM is the standard.  However, some people like our cute, little
assembler.  It's available at ftp.parallaxinc.com/pub/parallax/pic_lite.zip.
This zipped file contains several files, including our PASM.EXE (16C5x) and
PASMX.EXE (16Cxx) assemblers at no charge.

                Michael J. Robin