THis is the heart of the difference between CCS and Hitech (see my other
post of today)  Probably the reason CCS has it's reputation for instability,
they *TRY* to support all these different library functions, and get lost in
the trees.  Hitech keeps it simple and stable (K.I.S.S.) and you end up
having a little include library of your own functions.

You'll not go wrong with either compiler.  CCS will end up costing you as
much as Hitech in the long run, $100 a year per compiler (  you need two,
PCB and PCM) because you can't do without the bug fixes.  But you may get
off the ground with C quicker and cheaper in the short run with CCS.

--Lawrence

> I'm still a novice C programer, so I guess I'm uclearon the difference
> between a library and a built-in function.  One of the reasons I went with
> CCS was its rich set of available functions for A/D, serial I/O, PWM,
> interrupt handling, etc.  There are also a lot of example programs and
> quite a few of what I would call "libraries" -- that is, a set of
> functions that can be #included in your program.
>
> Some are less useful than others, yes -- like the LCD and keypad routines,
> which you would of course have to modify for your hardware.  A lot of
> others, though, are highly useful.  For example, the compiler will
> determine by the pin assignments in a pragma statement whether serial I/O
> is being done with the hardware UART or bit-banged, and use appropriate
> code on its own - though you can even specify to use bit-banged serial
> using the hardware UART pins, for example if you want to send 8 bits plus
> parity.  The ADC routines are simple but save an awful lot of time, and
> generate code almost exactly the same as what I'd do in assembler.
>
> So I don't know, does HT has that sort of thing built in?  At their prices
> it wasn't a viable choice for me.  Personally, though, I *really really
> like* having such things as putc(), getc(), pwm(), read_adc() and that
> sort of thing available without having to write them from scratch and
> #include them in every program I write.
>
> Dale
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