On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:49:03 -0500, you 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.
>
>Try changing the optimizer settings.  I use -O -Zg1 most of the time.

It's still very poor in some cases, looking at the code produced, where =
there are optimisations even
a crude peephole optimiser could make. e.g. handling of the ? operator on=
 chars, which generates a
mess of gotos=20


>>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.
I use Picmaster so I'm stuck with it.

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