> Who offers a free C compiler for their microcontrollers?
>
> If a C compiler is all you need then wait a while and SDCC
> will be ready for you. Meanwhile, you can use Jal, which I
> understand to be quite powerful. If you're doing professional
> development with PIC's then buying professional tools is such
> a small drop in the bucket that free tools aren't even worth
> considering. (This of course is changing as gpsim, gpasm and
> now, SDCC are serious alternatives. I'll even fo so far as to
> say that for assembly programming that gpsim/gpasm is
> superior in many aspects to MPLAB. I'm of course slightly biased...)
>
> Scott

Is SDCC even actively maintained?  And do they even have decent support
for PICs?  There web page hasn't been updated since last year, and even
then they only mention STARTING to add PIC support.  Is there some other
place you are looking for your information?

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