> What I will say about the IAR compiler is that it was not a pleasant > experience.
That's very interesting? What made it unpleasant? Did you run into problems? > From my experience there are 2 great 8051 compilers. Keil is/was the > number 1 compiler if you can afford the price tag. It produces > smaller code and behaves more like a standard C compiler in the corner > cases and when writing code to a standard like MISRA. > BUT SDCC is a very close 2nd the mailing list is active and you can > get peephole optimizations that will solve all these corner cases. > They fix bugs in the compiler very quickly. While in my opinion the > bit variables do weird things when using logic operators on them, this > is predictable and work around-able. WIth the added feature of > code-banks I see almost no reason to use the Keil compiler. That's very reassuring - thanks! Joel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Sdcc-user mailing list Sdcc-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sdcc-user
