Aschwin Gopalan wrote:
>
> Randy Howe <rhowe@mprextensys.com> 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
> 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...

I have to object! MPLABC also has floating point support - it floats
everywhere! <G> Not to mention the interrupt support (when customers
interrupt your sleep)

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