AVR-Chat

--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Curtis" <plc@r...> wrote:

> 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.

True, but it's not as good as it needs to be either for serious work. 
I have reported many defects to ZiLOG and release after release goes 
by without fixes. I have sunk a lot of effort into that MCU - an 
RTOS, Flash Loader and Prototyping System - and I'm at the point of 
trashing it all. I sure hope the AVR and Atmel are a hell of a lot 
better. Trouble is, that stuff already exists for the AVR.

> ... it's very decent for the price.

True. It is nominally free (comes with the ZiLOG evaluation board), 
so it's hard to say it's not worth the price of nothing.

> IAR have lost interest in Zilog,
> I think, and are not providing
> Encore! compilers.

I tried to persuade the Director of third party tools at ZiLOG that 
he needed to consider bringing an outside source of a compiler on 
line but he was satisfied with their internal development.  ZiLOG 
want to do it all themselves. He is no longer at the company.

Graham.