On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Dave McGuire wrote: > Maarten Brock wrote: >> The code is bigger because SDCC is made by a few hobbyists, not by >> trained professionals who can spend all day working on it. > > Wow, THAT'S a pretty crappy thing to say. I don't know of too many > people who work on compilers (whether they're shipped from a big shiny > building or not) that aren't "trained professionals".
The facts as I know them are: - C compiler writing is a full time job. - SDCC is a great compiler for a compiler written by people who do not write it as a full time job. - The difference wrt. a commercial compiler (written by full time jobbers) shows. Mostly as code size but not only. - In despite of this, SDCC is one of the best C compilers for embedded, and one of the very few which are free and open sourced. You can't have almost everything for almost nothing. Peter Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Sdcc-user mailing list Sdcc-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sdcc-user
