Dear Garrick,

> I've just been monitoring this collection for a few days, and I'm new in
> the PIC game, but does anyone experienced used the MPLAB-C complier?  It
> appears that amoungst the pros, everyone is a die-hard assembly
> programmer.  Are the compilers that aweful?
>
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> Garrick Kremesec                  | "There is no witness so dreadful, no
> University of Illinois U/C        |  accuser so terrible as the conscience
> http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/~gkremese |  that dwells in the heart of every
> gkremese@uiuc.edu                 |  man." - Polybius

I'm using MPLAB-C since more than one year ago. However I must confess
that I'm very disappointed by Microchip's compiler and support.

So I would really like to advice you against using this compiler!!! In
my opinion it's still very "buggy" and not very efficient (for example
it produces plenty of unnecessary BSF/BCF commands of RP0 Bit and does
often unnecessarily reload PCLATH). The assembly code produced is often
very awkward even for simpliest C-source.

Moreover it lacks the capability of linking different C and ASM modules
nor it's able to overlay local variables. During the last year there
were no significant improvements made to the compiler.

So far I couldn't test the HI-TECH compiler thoroughly, but at first
glance it's looking better. From my experience with another product of
HI-TECH I can tell you that the support is better.

Best regards,

Marc Schmaeche

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