That's actually bad news for C18 and C30 users. Hi-tech did got some advantage on PIC16 and PIC18 C compilor due to some of their engineer and advantages on these part of business. But their dsPIC30/33+PIC24 C compilor is a loser to GNU GCC. Now, they are part of Microchip, which might lead C30 to dead for marketing reason (which is why the PICkit2 still cannot debug PIC32, and until last fall, the PICkit2 couldn't debug dsPIC30Fs). Same will apply to C18 which has been improved recently (though still not as perfect as old PICC18 (8.35Plx and older.)). Hi-tech is good on marketing on the past years, and their focus has shift from good product to Good market control, so don't be surprise if you got more MBA staff (One example is they abandoned their in-house developed HI-TIDE which is really productive, and went to Eclipse based New Hi-TIDE, which is so slow and many useful function/features are missed, the new HI-TIDE is now full of useless but beautiful icons). Funny N. Au Group Electronics, http://www.AuElectronics.com ________________________________ From: Tamas Rudnai To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. Sent: Monday, March 9, 2009 4:28:03 PM Subject: Re: [PIC] Microchip purchased HI-TECH On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 7:31 PM, solarwind wrote: > Very good news. I hope their compiler set becomes unified and optimized. > PICC is not bad actually, the question is if the free version will have the optimisation restriction on it? Tamas -- Rudonix DoubleSaver http://www.rudonix.com -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist