Am 01.03.2011 14:49, schrieb Joel Holdsworth: > I'm trying to guage the relative merrits of the SDCC for a new project > involving the Texas Instruments CC1110. We have a choice between > building with the SDCC or tools from IAR systems (iar.com). In some ways > the SDCC seems compelling; low cost, easy to pick up and use, open > source, can run on linux, previous team experience.
Do not underestimate the free (or, if you prefer OSI terminology, "open source") aspect. There is a company named HITECH, making a compiler named HITECH-C. They made a good compiler. It generated more compact code than sdcc. I hope we will get even with them in sdcc 3.1.0, but so far their last release still generates smaller code than sdcc for most functions. HITECH-C had various backends. Then HITECH was bought by Microchip Ltd and immidiately discontinued support for all non-Microchip targets. They even no longer sell the old versions. There's no way you can get more licenses, get a bug fixed or a feature into that compiler any more. That's something that can't happen with sdcc (even if you want some obscure feature no sdcc developer is interested in, you could still pay someone to implement it). Philipp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Sdcc-user mailing list Sdcc-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sdcc-user
