On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Mark Newland wrote:

> 4) Bite my nails and wait for SDCC. Unfortunately, I have a customer (my first
> one) waiting for his project

Mark,

That's too much risk. As the primary author of the PIC port of SDCC, I'd
recommend NOT depending on SDCC right now. As I've said before, I expect a
beta version to be ready around March.

If you want to write compiler independent code then you're going to need
the help of the C-preprocessor. I'd suggest creating an include file that
defines all of the basic types:

(NOTE: I don't own these compilers, so I'm not sure if the sizes are
correct or not)


#ifdef HITECH

#define u8  unsigned char
#define s8  signed char
#define u16 unsigned int
#define s16 signed int
...

#endif

#ifdef CCS

#define u8  unsigned int
#define s8  signed int
#define u16 unsigned long
#define s16 signed long

#endif



Then in your code, if you need an unsigned 8 bit variable, you can do
this:

u8 var1;


As far as the built in functions, well, your basically stuck rolling your
own.


Scott

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