Olin Lathrop wrote:

> It hadn't occurred to me that any compiler vendor would be so brain dead
> as to make their suite incompatible with MPASM/MPLINK, but apparently
> HiTech is.  Please show me I'm wrong.

You are right (with the incompatibility). Whether that's "brain dead" is
another question. Maybe there are some features in their assembler/linker
that the Microchip combo doesn't support?

If you look at it from the HiTech angle, there may be other concerns that
play a role. For example the fact that they make compilers for a number of
micros -- there may be some internal code sharing that may have contributed
to their (at least once) leading role.

I think that for most users this incompatibility is not really a biggie --
compared with moving to C. Once you decide to use a C compiler, you tend to
use less and less assembler. For the asm routines you use, you have to
rewrite their interface in any case (even with a compiler that uses
MPASM/MPLINK), to satisfy the C compiler's calling conventions -- the
additional work to adapt it to HiTech C may not be that much more. Have you
looked at what you would have to do with C18? 

Gerhard

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