Some of you may recall that I promised a beta release of the pic port of
SDCC by March. Well, March is here. The beta should be released very soon
as part of SDCC 2.4.0.

I must confess that despite all of the hard work, the PIC Port of SDCC
should be considered somewhere between an alpha and beta. I think it's
ready for anxious users to use in small non-professional projects (i.e.
it's ready for hobbies). However, in the few projects I've tried to
compile with SDCC, I have found bugs. For the most part the bugs are
minor (but a minor bug in a compiler often means unusable code is
generated).

The main reasons I'm considering this a pre-beta release are:

 - multiplication, division, and mod are not implemented
 - multiple source files are not supported
 - device specific include files haven't been written

What I'd like is to have some code written for other compilers that I can
try with SDCC. I already converted Bob Blick's LCD driver to SDCC. Here's
a gpsim simulation result:

http://www.dattalo.com/bblick_lcd.jpg

If you have a project you'd like to try with SDCC then please contact me.
If you're familiar with CVS and would like to be a tester for SDCC that'd
be even better!

I'll post a notice here when the 2.4.0 is ready.

Scott

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