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From: c23vgs@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Victor Sperry)
Subject: Re: 'hc11 C compilers
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In article <35se7h$fqa@handler.Eng.Sun.COM>, cmcmanis@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) writes:
> Iain Galloway (galloway@bud.peinet.pe.ca) wrote:
> : 2) Does one need to buy a 'c' compiler to get something half decent?
> :    if so what (inexpensive) ones can people recommend?
> 
> --
> --Chuck McManis wrote:
> Yes. None of the free compilers can match the code generation efficiency
> of the commercial compilers. Also if you get a commercial compiler you
> don't have to fix bugs in it, you call the seller and they fix the bugs.
> This also helps eliminate a variable in your debugging.
> 
> In the commercial compiler space it goes something like:
> 	icc11 ($40) ImageCraft (nice compiler, this is the one I use)
> 	Micro-C ($99) Dunfield Development Systems (nice compiler, lots of
> 			folks I know use this one)
> 	Archimedies ($800) nice environment and compiler
> 	MicroTec ($1500 - $2000) really nice debugger (X-ray), and ok
> 			compiler.
> 
There is also a good commercial compiler from Intermetrics (in the
$1000-$2000 range I think). I have no experience with it beyond using
it for a class in realtime ANSI C, but it seemed quite good.

Those interested can try calling Intermetrics Microsystems Software,
Inc. (IMSI) at 1-800-356-3594

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