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>From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] 
>On Behalf Of Herbert Graf
>Sent: 22 September 2004 01:00
>To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
>Subject: [PIC] C30 Free?
>
>
>Hello everyone, I remember when the dsPIC first came out there 
>was a discussion of C30 being GPL and open source.
>
>I see there is source online at Mchip, is this source enough 
>to get all of C30 working? Has anybody compiled it sucessfully?
>
>Thanks for any info. TTYL


The source of the compiler is open, but I was told by an FAE that the
optimiser is proprietary to Microchip. If that is the case I suspect the
code generation of just the open sourced compiler will not be great in terms
of speed or size (although I've not tried it).

Source available at
http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/mplabc30_v1_20_02.tar.gz

Regards

Mike

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