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> On Feb 11, 2014, at 1:24 AM, alan.b.pearce@stfc.ac.uk wrote:
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> > I believe the free mode [of XC8] now does a minimal optimisation so tha=
t any
> code generated will at least work in the way the code writer intended.
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> I dunno.  I downloaded the latest, in hopes that this would be true.  But=
 it's
> still producing rather weird code:
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This has been discussed several times on the Microchip forum and here is on=
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the threads:=20

<http://www.microchip.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=3D656489>

What seems to be weird looking or bloated assembler code is just the first=
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"draft" from the compiler, following the C code line by line, before it has=
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full picture. This will be cleaned up in the following optimization steps w=
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is part of the PRO (paid) version.

/Ruben


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