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Hiya fellow MPLABC users! I have at long last succeeded in 'upgrading' MPLABC with the patch offered by Microchip. The only difference I could see, was that ver 1.21 (the 'new' version) gives mysterious syntax errors that have to be disabled with the /s- switch. There is *absolutely* no difference in code inefficiency between 1.1 and 1.21 I did a word count on BSF 05.3 and BCF 05.3 in the List file for a 16C74 and discovered a whopping 761 ocurrences in the used 4073 bytes of ROM space. That means 18% of the code space is taken up by *mostly* unnecessary RAM page switching. Geez - will MPLABC users get a 18% discount on PIC parts ? I think not! HEY MICROCHIP! YOOOHOOOO!!! -- Friendly Regards Tjaart van der Walt spam_OUTtjaartTakeThisOuTwasp.co.za _____________________________________________________________ | Another sun-deprived R&D Engineer slaving away in a dungeon | | WASP International http://wasp.co.za | | GSM and GPS value-added applications | | Voice : +27-(0)11-622-8686 | Fax : +27-(0)11-622-8686 | |_____________________________________________________________|

Tjaart van der Walt <.....tjaartKILLspam@spam@wasp.co.za> wrote: > I have at long last succeeded in 'upgrading' MPLABC with the patch > offered by Microchip. The only difference I could see, was that ver > 1.21 (the 'new' version) gives mysterious syntax errors that have to > be disabled with the /s- switch. There is *absolutely* no difference > in code inefficiency between 1.1 and 1.21 Correct. As far as I know, the only difference between the two is that 1.21 includes a text-file that shows workarounds for all the known bugs. -Andy === Andrew Warren - fastfwdKILLspamix.netcom.com === Fast Forward Engineering, Vista, California === http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2499