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Re: [lpc2000] Looking to buy compiler

2005-11-06 by Marko Panger

Hi,

Mr. Dan and Mr. Greg said some thing which I simply must comment. Sorry.

While I agree that if you are a HW engineer and you have just to toggle 
some IO pins go with a commercial product which is very easy to use, I 
totally disagree that GCC is bad documented, no support,...and things 
like you wrote. For sure you don't know GCC world enough to comment like 
this. I don't want to go further with this bar discussion but 
inform/teach yourself a little bit about GCC/Gdb/RDI and such things and 
you will be pretty surprised how powerful GCC and companion tools are.

And really you don't have to build your own car, because you can get 
precompiled packages of GCC. (www.gnuarm.com, www.codesourcery.com) , 
and try to RTFM before comment so hard.

Regards,
marko



Dan Beadle wrote:

>I am with you about GNU.  Cheap, but my time is worth a lot.  IAR and
>Keil are Chevy vs Ford.  
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>From: lpc2000@yahoogroups.com [mailto:lpc2000@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
>Of Greg Deuerling
>Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 11:48 AM
>To: lpc2000@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: RE: [lpc2000] Looking to buy compiler
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>>For a professional developer which would be the compiler of choice:
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>>IAR
>>Keil
>>Or another?
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>I use Keil and like it a lot.  What few problems with the compiler I've
>found had been fixed with in several days.  The support is great.
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>There are going to be a lot of people suggesting GNU and while I sure it
>a
>powerful development tool I can't stand to use it.  I'm a hardware
>engineer
>that programs and I don't want to have to be a frigg'n GNU expert just
>to
>use a compiler.  I compare buying a compiler to buying a car;  buy
>Keil/Iar/... and you get a fully assembled car, use GNU and you get a
>box
>full of unlabeled parts, crappy documentation, no support, and you put
>your
>own car together out of these parts...
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>If you want a great tool that is well supported grab Keil or one of the
>other commercial compiler packages.
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