Be careful not to paint all C compilers with the same brush. There are significant differences between the various available compilers for the PIC. Dale -- It's a thankless job, but I've got a lot of Karma to burn off. On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Mike Harrison wrote: > This may be true of an 'ideal' compiler, but my experience of the Hitech Pic16 C is that although > very reliable, it is not great at optimising for code space, making poor use of the possibilities of > skip instructions. Integration with MPLAB is also not great for debugging. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads