We just completed our first project with the HiTech compiler for the
PIC16C73A.
The HiTech compiler had 0 install problems and 0 compilation/user problems.
It worked extremely well.  There was no need to ask for emergency "bug
fixes".

"Bug free"is a little exaggerated of a statement.  Perhaps the same
comments could be
said of assemblers, and maybe of all software that does anything
significant?  Maybe
we should lay-out PCBs by hand because the CAD software has bugs?  (Note: I
do not say
"might"have bugs).

We have extensively used the Bytecraft C compiler through version 2.07bbs
and
have also used the new HiTech C compiler v7.70 PL1 CDROM release.  The
MicroChip MPLAB-C was based on an older version of the Bytecraft compiler
that is known to have MANY bugs.  Shame on Microchip for distributing it!


James


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> From: blunn@KEYCORP.COM.AU
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: Re[2]: C compiler
> Date: Wednesday, August 06, 1997 11:12 AM
>
> Bob Lunn
> 08/06/97 06:12 PM
>
>
> > There are C-compilers available for PICmicros that are "bug-free".
>
>      Hmm, even allowing for the quote marks this is a dangerous
assertion.
>
>      Proving the correctness of anything as complicated as a compiler is
>      a daunting undertaking.  If any supplier of a Pic 'C' compiler is
> prepared
>      to prove its correctness, I would be very interested in hearing it.
>
> ___Bob