AVR-Chat

On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 13:50 +1000, Russell Shaw wrote:
> stevech wrote:
> > Compiler-goodness debates! 
> > My experiences:
> > GCC - free. IDEs are from other cottage industry or freeware types.
> > Hard to use. Does NOT support tiny memory model for small AVR chips.
> > Support is limited to forum on AvrFreaks and often you get an answer
> >from an arrogant compiler guru who hates corresponding with the > > >
> >little people. But it's free. Students love it. I'd never use it for
> >a professional endeavor where there> are contractual issues of
> >project completion and acceptance/support long term. But it's free.
> I've used it a lot.  Codevision (CV). US$150 or so as I recall. Free
> demo.  Code density for my projects was great. Supports tiny memory
> model for 2313 and the others with 256 bytes of memory (8 bit RAM
> pointers) and this has a big benefit in code size. Great support.
> > I've not used any of the others. 
> The last time i used CV couple of years ago, it couldn't do functions
> stored as pointers in structs, or even cope with enums and structs
> declared inside functions. Has it been fixed yet?

   To be completely fair, let'd be realistic.  While such C code
certainly has its place, inside something like a 2313 is NOT the place
where it belongs.  This isn't to say that a product representing itself
as a "C compiler" ought not to handle such code, either.  But be fair,
if the comparison is what it will do for a tennsy little chip like the
2313, then your complaint is esoterica.

tom