Lpc2000

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Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: [lpc2000] Looking to buy compiler


>I tried the IAR kit, and I was not happy.  They had quite a few bugs.  Far 
>more than I expected for an expensive compiler.   Then I tried the GNUARM 
>and it worked right off the bat.  I've never looked back since.  I was 
>fully prepared to pay $2K for a dev system, but the fact is the GNUARM 
>worked better and was free.  I just run it out of UltraEdit as my IDE and I 
>have no desire to change.  If the GCC compiler is good enough to compile 
>all of 10GB Linux on multiple platforms, it's good enough for my embedded 
>apps.

When I worked for Racal Comms, the software engineers on one project gave up 
on the very expensive 68K compiler they were supposed to use as it had too 
many bugs and used gcc instead. Management wasn't told for some time and was 
horrified when they heard that free software was being used on a \ufffd10 million 
MoD project. They couldn't do much about it, especially as the firmware 
worked and was on time. 8-)

Leon 

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