>>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.
>
> Olin please *think* before writing, as you often advise others to do.
>
> Had you ever thought that this "brain dead" vendor already had a well
> defined and implemented toolset in existance for many other targets which
> was retained when then they introduced their PIC compilers?  Why on earth
> would they suddenly want to break compatibility with the rest of their
> tools just for one micro family?
>

I'd like to add a little history to this. Hi-Tech was making pic compilers
before MPLAB supported relocatable code. They had no reason to break from
their way of doing things. So there's no way anyone could find fault with
Hi-Tech here - actually more reason to find fault with Microchip for not
following Hi-Tech's way of doing things when the time came to bring MPLAB
up to date.

But really, it doesn't matter. It'll be easier for Olin to use C18 because
he has lots of code that won't need to be altered very much.

Cheerful regards,

Bob


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