On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 4:03 AM, Christopher Head wrote: > To be perfectly honest: because for me, using vanilla GCC is worth a > lot in terms of convenience. I know some of the higher-end PICs are > MIPS-based, and I know GCC has a MIPS target, but from looking around > and doing a bit of research, it seemed at the time that an ordinary > mips-gcc would not be suitable, there were a lot of patches and things > that needed adding. On the other hand, I just built a vanilla > arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc and was off to the races for the STM32F4. Microchip has been playing fast and loose with the GPL (if not downright ignoring it) for as long as they have been using GCC. For many, that is reason enough not to support the PIC24/dsPIC/PIC32 platforms. -p. --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .