From: Vangelis R. <vr...@ot...> - 2004-05-28 10:33:32
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On Friday 28 May 2004 02:18, James Chadd wrote: > Feel free to add the script to the source distribution. Adding > an option to SDCC to select assembler etc would be great, > especially as GPutils is still in development, as it would allow > bugs to be traced more easily. Ok, I'll do that! any suggestions for command line arguments? i.e. '--alt-asm=' for alternative assembler, '--alt-link=' for alternative linker. > I'm not really using SDCC much at the moment. However I started > developing code for my final year project (MP3 player using 18F452 > , VS1001 & HDD) and was using SDCC very regulary (ie every day) for > 1-1.5 months around Christmas last year. > > Unfortunately I ran into a serious SDCC bug, to do with passing > pointers to functions and had to change to the CCSC PCH compiler, > as I was getting near the project deadline. Well, this bug has been solved just after New Year's day. Other remain! > I also had problems setting up references to single bits when > the library system changed, however I can't remember the details > except that all of my old code to do this stopped working so I > jumped ship ;-) Single bits in SFRs can now be accessed just like its done in MPLAB. > Hope this helps, I understand that the inability of pic16 port to create stable code creates problems and forces the users to use other tools. But this creates another problem which has to do with the feedback I get. I have in my mind somethings to fix, that may not be so critical, while other bugs still exist creating problems to potential users of pic16 port. So before anybody jumps to another tool suite, I'd like him to submit a bug report or even contact me to see how it can be solved. PIC16 port is not stable yet, but more feedback is needed. Regards, Vangelis |