Good:
Hitech C http://www.htsoft.com
Bytecraft http://www.bytecraft.com
IAR: http://www.iar.com/ (not sure about their PIC compiler, but their 8051 stuff is pretty good)

Cheap:
CCS http://www.ccsinfo.com
FED C http://www.fored.co.uk/

Free:
CC5X http://www.bknd.com/cc5x/index.shtml

These are only the ones I know about or have had some experience with.  I use Hitech and I'm very happy with it.
Note that good and cheap are not always very compatible goals with emmbedded compilers.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From:   Terry A. Steen [SMTP:engineering@MARINAPOWER.COM]
Sent:   Friday, January 14, 2000 2:15 PM
To:     PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject:        C?

I have always been a bit-man... I prefer to have total control over all the
registers, files, code, bits, and the like... but, it takes a long time to
code that way. I use the MPLAB for my coding and want to start using a C
compiler. I just want to hear what people out there use. What's good,
cheap, and prefered - usable with MPLAB?

Thanks,

Terry
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