Richard, >Maybe a few words would be helpful about what makes one editor more >"suitable" than another, or what might make it less-suitable. A few >suggestions as to "convenient" features might be helpful in this context, >too.
Well, this is not really SDCC-specific... I don't feel competent to answer this question either - as a notorious C-hater I don't use advanced function-header-collecting and similar functions of the "fat" IDEs. All I need is basic code indenting, decent syntax highlighting, ability to run external programs (i.e. upon F9 to run the compiler or a "script" (batch) of compiler-downloader) and good searching/bookmarking (unfortunately the latter is rare); and a fair price (recently, this has shrinked to the ultimate $0, as there are quite a lot of enthusiasts around writing this sort of stuff). Some examples are Notepad++, Programmer's Notepad, PSPad, and my favourite (although a bit strange and unfortunately mostly abandoned) is Crimson Editor (it's the only one I know which supports 2 language syntax highlight - e.g. C and asm - in a single file). An interesting option may be setedit, which is multi-platform and deliberately Borland-like; but also slightly different than the others, being text-based. >The >output includes an ASM file, right? What else should I look for? It's maybe not quite straighforwardly asm (and the assembler's syntax is non-intel-ish), but it's there, if you use the --debug switch. Under W9x, for me it was a challenge to find the --use-stdout switch as the "dosbox" there has no "scrollback" feature, and without this switch it's impossible to redirect the output into a file. This is not an issue under WXP as you can scroll back the "dosbox". But, basically, that's it. Try. Enjoy. Jan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Sdcc-user mailing list Sdcc-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sdcc-user
