On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 09:23 -0500, Olin Lathrop wrote:
> So the question is, is C18 up to the job?  A bunch of years ago C18 was
> definitely behind, and I even had Microchip people tell me the HiTech
> compiler was better.  This lingering feeling is why the customer got HiTech
> in the first place, not knowing about the incompatibilities with
> MPASM/MPLINK.  It's been a bunch of years, and Microchip could well have
> made C18 better by now.  Does anyone have experience with both?  Anyone
> found pitfalls in C18?  Unless there is a good reason not to, we would like
> to switch to C18 (the cost of the compiler isn't a big deal, and we get a
> big discount we can pass on to the customer anyway).  The TCP/IP stack is
> specifically supported on both compilers, so that's not an issue either.

My experience with C18 isn't very vast, but so far I've encountered zero
problems with the compiler itself.

I have encountered some issues with the peripheral libraries, but my
solution to that was to simply write my own routines! :) I'm so used to
the PIC peripherals that writing my own routines was far easier then
trying to figure out what was going wrong with what I was trying to do.

Considering your experience level I see zero chance you'd have a problem
creating your own peripheral routines, so I don't think you'll have a
problem.

TTYL

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