I'm new to this group and new to the MSP430. I don't want to stir
up
trouble, but has anyone had good or bad experiences with the Hi-Tech C
Compiler for the MSP430? I didn't see anything in the group guidelines
about whether "reviews" of products are encouraged or discouraged. I
know some groups discourage this because it can lead to flame wars.

The reason I ask is that I noticed you have a nice variety of C
compilers listed in the Links section but the Hi-Tech compiler is not
listed. Is that because it is new? I see there is at least one
employee of Hi-Tech on this list and found it odd that the product
isn't listed.

Thanks for any help.

Hi Jim.

This group doesn't tend to get into flame wars over compilers (at least,
not 
_on_ the forum, hum), maybe the occasional C vs ASM round and round debate, 
so no worries.
Anyways, I've done quite a bit of CG testing on the HI-Tech C compiler, and
found
that the code generation was quite good.
That was expected, considering HiTech C provide a compiler that is able
to produce suprisingly excellent code on a dog MCU like a PIC.
Specific things I like (off-the cuff) eg. is C statements like this :
......
if (foo & 0x01) return 1;
else return 0;
....
would reduce it to a register load of 0 and then skip loading 1 or not 
before returning.
I thought that was nifty, of course a
return (foo&0x01); 
would make more sense, but the compiler figures such things out for you.
This is just a simple example, try yourself and see if it fancies you I guess..
I found Hi Tech C to especially handle intensive bit operations really well, 
considering MSP430 is a bit weak on that.

-- Kris


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Dodd" <bcbuilderboy@bcbu...>
To: <msp430@msp4...>
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 3:29 AM
Subject: [msp430] Hi-Tech C Compiler


> I'm new to this group and new to the MSP430.
I don't want to stir up
> trouble, but has anyone had good or bad experiences with the Hi-Tech C
> Compiler for the MSP430? I didn't see anything in the group guidelines
> about whether "reviews" of products are encouraged or
discouraged. I
> know some groups discourage this because it can lead to flame wars.
> 
> The reason I ask is that I noticed you have a nice variety of C
> compilers listed in the Links section but the Hi-Tech compiler is not
> listed. Is that because it is new? I see there is at least one
> employee of Hi-Tech on this list and found it odd that the product
> isn't listed.
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
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