MPLABC compiles only upto 4 K of object code.

Pailoor

Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

> At 08:43 02/03/99 -0600, Eric Oliver wrote:
> >I am new to the PIC and micro-controllers in general.  I am currently
>
> >working on a project of perhaps modest complexity ( very complicated
> to me
> ><g> ). My dilemma relates to the fact that I am just now getting my
> feet
> >wet with assembler but I have been using C on the PC platform for
> years.  I
> >am tempted to use C as it would _greatly_ decrease my development
> time.
> >
> >However, I realize that C can't be totally optimized to assembler and
> I am
> >concerned that the finished program could grow beyond the confines of
> the
> >PIC's program space.
>
> without any comments specific to your project, i would definitely use
> c,
> especially since you're already familiar with it. if you need to, you
> can
> always optimize the assembler code the compiler generates (one good
> reason
> to get one that does this!), which is a =lot= easier and faster than
> writing it from scratch in assembler -- unless you're one of the
> assembler
> cracks. (and even when modifying quite a bit, a well written c
> program,
> included in the assembler file as comments, serves as a pretty decent
> documentation -- just about what you'd have to write in your assembler
> code
> anyway.)
>
> ge



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