CCS PIC32 C Compiler

PICoHolic · Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Posts: 224

I was just wondering when CCS will be introducing the PIC32 C compiler!?!?
http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=2591&redirects=32bit

That would be awesome...
Cheers

n-squared · Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 99

I suggest they work out the problems in the PCD compiler before moving on to 32 bits.
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Douglas Kennedy · Joined: 07 Sep 2003 Posts: 755 Location: Florida

Be careful what you wish for. CCS marketing has little knowledge of the degree of difficulty it takes CCS programmers to produce a useful compiler. CCS marketing will sell a year or two ahead of any useful delivery. PCD is the classic case. Most early adopters of PCD have exhausted their first year of maintenance before even a hello world example program will compile and run. I am sure there may be a hundred good reasons for this poor result but frankly most customers don't care to hear them.

n-squared · Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 99

Being a programmer with more than 30 year of experience, I have delivered many a program with bugs. When I fixed them, I tried not to introduce new ones. I don't understand how CCS keeps adding new bugs while trying to fix older ones.
I have been using CCS compilers for more than ten years, and for the most part am happy with the results, but I keep looking at the assembly listing to make sure the code is correct.
I keep downloading new versions of the compiler but I still use V4.079 since I don't have time to find why V4.080 started behaving differently, and the code stopped working.
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