On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 03:10:10PM +0200, wouter van ooijen & floortje hanneman wrote:
> > Does anyone know if there is ongoing work for, or a ready made port of a
> GCC
> > compiler targeting the PIC processors
>
> (regularly recurring question)
> No, at least not that I am aware of. The target architecture that GCC
> assumes is simply too far from what a PIC offers. AVR, 8051 etc. are much
> nearer to what GCC assumes. But you could check Scott Datallo's work on
> SDCC.

And since Wouter will not toot his own horn, I'll do it for him. If you are
not married to C as a target langage (and I understand if you are), take a
look at JAL. Nice language, nice libraries, compilers for Linux and Windows.
I plan to do my next major project using it.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~wf/wouter/pic/jal/

BAJ

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