Re: gEDA-user: Renesas&Pics

[Charles Lepple <clepple@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/18/06, Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Jan 18, 2006, at 8:57 AM, Eric Daine wrote:
> > As for SDCC, I did briefly look at it a while back but got the general
> > impression that it was not
> > quite ready for prime time.  I'll have to have another look.
>
>    I've used SDCC (targeting 8051) for commercial products, even as far
> back as two years ago.  It has been ready for prime time for quite
> awhile now.

I'll agree that the 8051 backend is good - I've used it for some
EZ-USB chip hacking.

did some poking around on the SDCC website, and it looks like support
for 16-bit PICs (the PIC18 family) is much further along than the
14-bit PIC suppport (PIC16 and possibly PIC12, I forget).

It's much like GCC where the core of the compiler can be solid, but
you still have to make sure that your chip's specific backend is in
working order.

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- Charles Lepple