>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.

Try changing the optimizer settings.  I use -O -Zg1 most of the time.

>Integration with MPLAB is also not great for debugging.

I'm lucky - MPLAB won't run an any of my machines!  The few times I tried
it it was horrible, and from friends who are stuck using it they really
dislike it.

Andy

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