On 26 Jun 2000, at 8:12, Michael Rigby-Jones wrote:

> The bottom line is that the PIC itself is not especialy suitable for
> the C langauge due to certain hardware limitations.  Given that, it is
> a credit to the PIC compiler vendors how well their compilers do work,
> especialy if they maintain a good level of ANSI compatibility.
>
> Regards
>
> Mike
>
I sure agree with this. It amazes me that they work as well as they
do, given the limited resources of a pic. For a long time, I wouldnt
even try any compiler because I thought the whole idea was
ludicrous, but now I believe they are worth using. It seems to me
that in addition to standard C, the extensions that a vendor
supplies are very valuable additions to make better use of the pic
using C code. However, they all have different extensions, and that
defeats some of the purpose, so some of us are loathe to use
extensions that we wish they had :) :) :) Its too bad that they dont
talk to each other and try to provide a set of extensions that are
pretty much equivalent....sort of like a gentlemen's standard.