In SX Microcontrollers, SX/B Compiler and SX-Key Tool, DavidCary wrote:

[i]"How difficult is it to make a C tool chain ... The FIRSTies got me involved with programming the pic's with Eclipse and the C18 student version tool chain."[/i]

The PIC18F chips are specifically designed to be easy for a person to write a C compiler for it.

Alas, the PIC16 architecture -- and the SX chips that took the PIC16 architecture and made several improvements -- have many quirks that make it much more difficult to write a C compiler for it.
(But even the PIC16 is not quite as quirky as the 8051 or the RCA 1802. All three architectures were developed before the C language existed).

I'm making a list of all programming languages supported on PIC or SX chips.
There are several items in the "C or C++ for PIC" section.

Please help me make that list even more useful -- by marking which ones are SX compatible.
How far along is the port of SDCC to the SX chip?

.. _wikibooks [url]http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Embedded_Systems/PIC_Programming[/url]
.. _massmind [url]http://massmind.org/techref/microchip/language/cs.htm[/url]
.. _SDCC [url]http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/[/url]

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