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Re: Alternative compilers for native RCX code?
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 4 Feb 1999 18:58:11 GMT
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Do you have a URL of where to download the GCC/EGCS compiler? Yes, I'm lazy and
don't wish to hunt it down. :) I tried searcing this NG for 'compiler' but did
not find a ref. for this one in the messages located.
thanks,
-Wes
dave madden wrote:
<SNIP>
> If "low cost" is your discriminator, you can't get much less expensive
> than GCC/EGCS. The cygwin directory on an NT box I have is only about
> 32MB (add 22MB for emacs), whereas the M$VC++ directory tree on the
> same box consumes 700MB; so "small" is another word I'd apply to
> cygwin. (Of course, that copy of cygwin contains the native x86
> compiler, but I can't imagine the H8 compiler would be *that* much
> larger.)
>
> Now, I'm aware that GCC/EGCS has shortcomings, particularly as
> compared to the (expensive) native compilers on many platforms, but as
> a hobbyist on a limited budget myself, I consider the GNU compiler
> (and related development programs) to be the finest tools in my kit.
>
> BTW, I'm using egcs-1.1.1 on Linux to develop a c++ firmware
> replacement. When I get a little more functionality into it, I'll
> post details.
>
> regards,
> d.
> --
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| =>From: "Gavin Smyth" <gavin@beeskneesDOTf...OTcoDOTuk> =>... =>A brief web search for "H8" and "compiler" showed up a number of people =>selling, er, H8/300 compilers. One notable entry was HI-TECH Software who =>have a limited eval compiler (...) (26 years ago, 4-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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