Re: [Contiki-developers] Problematic compilers

[Groepaz <gr...@gm...>]

On Monday 19 May 2003 11:24, law...@nt... wrote:

> Well, it was a comercial quality compiler so it is pretty good. It is also
> used as the compiler in UZIX (the Unix enviroment for the MSX). As I said,
> the compiler code itself is not modifiable as only binary is available, but
> all the libraries are available in source, and certainly on the Wizard many
> fixes have been applied to these (and possibly on the UZIX only).
>
> Interestingly, John Elliot, the authour of the ZCC CPM emulator that allows
> use of this compiler on DOS/Windows also seems to be a bit of a Sectrum fan
> (pops up now and again on comp.sys.spectrum) so I wonder if he has done any
> work on Spectrum libraries for this.
>
> I have to agree though that in an ideal world, it would be nice for SDCC to
> work better :-)

mmmh well... so does it actually work significantly better than sdcc? (i 
remember you mentioned some problems with arrays aswell...)

as for the libraries for other z80 based systems.... z88dk comes with a LOT of 
them (more than is supported by cc65) so there is a lot of stuff available as 
a basis.... i am actually thinking about converting the spectrum stuff to 
sdcc so i can test if the z80 stuff works better or equally bad than the 
gameboy stuff :=)

gpz