Re: [Sdcc-user] How to specify chip type (PIC's) ?

[Ken J. <Ken...@ie...>]

I think the main problem is the PIC architecture.  It's actually
somewhat shocking how well SDCC has done to make C actually work
on an architecture that was clearly intended to run only assembly
code.

As for standards, I have come to view GCC as the center of the
universe.  Anything that differs is nonstandard.  That's why I so
thoroughly appreciate the Atmel AVR processors, for which GCC is
ported.

-Ken Jackson

Dave Baxter writes:
...
 > What I'm learning at the moment, is it seems that there is no such thing
 > as *Standard* C code any more.  OK, the basic C stuff is still much the
 > same, and much of it ANSI compatible, notwithstanding C++ (or C#) of
 > course.  (I've spent some years working with Pascal and Delphi, but the
 > only formal trainig I ever had in coding, was ANSI C based.)
 > 
 > However, there seems to be little to no standardisation in the way the
 > various compilers are invoked, or how the build time parameters are set,
 > not least from within the source code, let alone via any third party IDE
 > via a command line shell.  (Code::Blocks, or the MPLAB IDE)
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