On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, 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.

I can understand your frustration but this comment is just so wrong.

Brain dead would be blindly following everyone else without looking at the 
benefits of doing things another way. Brain dead would be to accept the 
limitations of old technology without taking advantage of new improvements 
in hardware (PC) speed and memory capacity.

Speaking as someone you would label as a brain dead compiler vendor, my 
non-MPASM assembler generates debug info which is incompatible with 
MPASM, MPLINK and MPSYM and as a consequence my simulator can detect 
invalid register access (RP0 and RP1 set incorrectly when a register is 
accessed). There are MANY other things that my XCASM assembler can do that 
MPASM cannot. 

Regards
Sergio Masci

http://www.xcprod.com/titan/XCSB - optimising PIC compiler
FREE for personal non-commercial use



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