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Hi,

Pacific C is a nice, free DOS compiler but suffers from pants debugging (if
you know assembler, though, you can see what is going on). I learnt from
using the superior debug environment of MS Visual Studio (better than
Borland, IMO) - you can see precisely what is going on in the source and
the error/warning messages are relatively extensive - essential for
starting out. Not to mention, a reasonable dollop of help complete with
code examples. At least this way, you can build the data/application level
code on a PC (with appropriate stubs) to get an idea of it working, then
make a go of porting to your microcontroller.

However, MSVC isnt cheap. You get what you pay for.

Regards,
Dan




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>Debugging C programs can be a very frustrating experience, simply leaving
>out a semi-colon somewhere in your program will produce an enormous list
of
>apparently unrelated errors when you try to compile.  All stuff you'll
learn
>with some experince though.

If there is a preprocessor that produces output you can look at, it is
often well worth looking at the output from it when getting this sort of
error, as all the comments get removed, and you can see just what the
compiler sees as input. Can be quite revealing.

I do not know if any of the PIC C implementations will do this for you.

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