Rick Miller wrote:
>
> I tried the MPLAB-C demo, then purchased the CCS "PCM" compiler instead.

>   o Arrays are limited to *five* dimensions.

Is this useful?  The PIC has very limited resources.

>   o Functions can return whatever you want.
>   o Functions can have as many arguments as you want.

Certainly this is not true.  The PIC has *very* limited resources.

> CCS's PCM C compiler is taylored specifically for PICs and produces
> really nice, tight assembler code.  I got 390 words of machine code
> for a 310-line C program!  It takes advantage of the PICs' features
> just like I would have if I were writing in assembler.

I'm curious.  How does the MPC compiler compare in compactness of
generated code?

Have you completed any commercial products with this compiler?  How did
it go?


James