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Re: [AVR-Chat] Differences between C compilers

2005-08-18 by Russell Shaw

stevech wrote:
> Compiler-goodness debates!
> 
> My experiences:
> GCC - free. IDEs are from other cottage industry or freeware types. Hard to
> use. Does NOT support tiny memory model for small AVR chips. Support is
> limited to forum on AvrFreaks and often you get an answer from an arrogant
> compiler guru who hates corresponding with the little people. But it's free.
> Students love it. I'd never use it for a professional endeavor where there
> are contractual issues of project completion and acceptance/support long
> term. But it's free. I've used it a lot. 
> 
> Codevision (CV). US$150 or so as I recall. Free demo.  Code density for my
> projects was great. Supports tiny memory model for 2313 and the others with
> 256 bytes of memory (8 bit RAM pointers) and this has a big benefit in code
> size. Great support.
> 
> I've not used any of the others. 

The last time i used CV couple of years ago, it couldn't do functions
stored as pointers in structs, or even cope with enums and structs
declared inside functions. Has it been fixed yet?

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