>Agree fully. The GNU toolchain is supererb. Also, you know the
>toolchain from other work (if you used it, that is work on Linux).
>But the price for Atmel chips are a bit high so I often ends up
>with a PIC micro in my designs anyway. Atmel has been a bit nicer
>with samples latly but not as good as Microchip. But in most other
>aspects they are the same. Its easy to work with both. I tend to
>favor an AVR when I code in C and a PIC when I code in assembler.
>
>>If you really want to know the power of AVR, it's the availability
>>of free C compilers, and the stack.  Instead of having a hardware
>>based stack, with a preset depth, you're limited only by your memory
>>availability.  These chips are extremely nice to program in.  ASM, or C.

Is the stack issue still an issue with the 18F series? The impression I have
is that it is possible to have a larger stack, but then I haven't studied
them that much yet to actually try it. Then with the various compilers
available for the 18 series the architecture differences between the two
makes would more or less vanish.

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