Michael Watterson wrote:

> C is designed for "normal" kind of CPU.

AMAZING.  Somebody else "gets" it.

My observation is a little different.  I have found most of the compilers
produce some very elegant code in some cases, and tolerable code most of
the time.  But most also produce some really pathological code in some
situations.  This "works most of the time" behavior can be terribly
frustrating.

Each compiler seems to have different cases where it goes nuts, but they
all seem to be related to attempting to comply with implementation details
required by the ANSI standard that make no sense on an embedded system.

The exception seems to be SDCC.  It almost never produces good code, but
as best I can tell, it never seems to come up with pathological code,
either.

--McD


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