AVR-Chat

--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, "Graham Davies" <YahooGroups@e...> 
wrote:

> ... I will try GCC for now.

The subject of the thread does drift, doesn't it, but every post was 
a good one. Thanks for the continued help.

I will sign up for the GCC for AVR list. I am familiar with UNIX-
style development environments and have used Makefiles so I don't 
anticipate problems I can't overcome with a little effort. On the 
other hand, I'm using Windows now, so it's WinAVR I will go for.

I understand the point about unifying the stacks.  I've been using 
the ZiLOG Z8 Encore!, which is also a modified Harvard architecture, 
and the ZiLOG compiler also produces a lot of stuff on function entry 
and exit.  But, the stack frame setup and teardown are intrinsic 
subroutines so there isn't so much in-line code.  It is still very 
slow, of course.

Graham.