Randy Howe writes: > > Hello, everyone, > > > > I am considering using C compiler for PIC16C73. If anyone has > > experience with C compiler and/or knows which compiler is good please > > give me some advice. Thanks in advance. > > > > Nancy > > ndong@sperry-sun.com > > I have tried the MPLAB-C demo version. I have also used a Bytecraft HC05 > compiler. I tried the beta version of the Hi-Tech PIC compiler and was > impressed enough to buy it (at the beta special price). It seems to me > it is much more like a 'real' C compiler than the others (not re-entrant > though because of PIC stack limitations). Yeah! I really like it quite a bit. I have used CCS PCM before, which has a really nice library but for my taste it had too many code generation bugs... They were very quick in fixing those, though. I finally ordered HT-Soft's compiler because it gerenates nice code and comes with a very complete library WRT ANSI features. It lacks PIC peripheral support, though. At least compared with CCS PCM. But I think this will improve quickly. I was very impressed by the quality of even the first beta of this compiler... One sad thing though: A main reason for me to buy the HT-SOFT immediately was that they advertise it produces code for the 17CXX. I only found out it doesn't when I received the disk. They said that they would upgrade the compiler to support the 17CXX for free, which is OK, but it won't be before January as far as I understood. Which is bad, since on their web page they used to give you the impression that 17CXX support is already in the compiler... Otherwise, Clyde Smith-Stubbs who always answers all my e-mails to HI-SOFT and is an active and well known member of this list is very helpful in every aspect and very willing to answer questions and provide solutions. So if you can wait for the 17CXX support, I would really recommend the Compiler. AFAIK it is the only one with a *decent* floating point support an a really sufficient range of integer sizes... Bye, Aki > > -- > Randy Howe > (currently consulting @ MPR Extensys Ltd.) > Axiak Electronic Design Ltd. > "Have PIC tools, will code"