AVR-Chat

Graham,

> --- 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.

I have an Ecore! development system and the Zilog compiler *has*
improved since the early days.  But it's still not as good as it could
be.  Having said that, it's very decent for the price.  IAR have lost
interest in Zilog, I think, and are not providing Encore! compilers.

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Paul Curtis, Rowley Associates Ltd http://www.rowley.co.uk
CrossWorks for MSP430, ARM, and (soon) Atmel AVR processors