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Something SPECIAL: put variables anywhere

Byte Craft Limited's compilers support SPECIAL memory: user-declared memory blocks accessed (read and written) by software. The compiler manages allocation for SPECIAL memory similarly to system RAM and ROM. The result is a seamless integration of off-chip or on-chip memory resources into C language programs.

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Optimization and Debugging

Submitted by Walter Banks on Thu, 2008-09-18 21:08. debugging | optimization

There's an active discussion about optimization and debugging going on on comp.programming and comp.compilers.

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Isn't hand-optimized code more efficient?

Submitted by Kirk Zurell on Wed, 2007-11-21 15:08. eTPU_C | optimization

There is no technical reason why compiled code on the eTPU cannot be as tight as hand-optimized code. The ISO C standard for embedded systems overcomes previous C language limitations related to embedded.

There are three things that the eTPU_C compiler can do very well that hand optimization finds difficult.

Computers are very good at accounting.

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If you use Microchip's MPLAB as an IDE for Byte Craft Limited's MPC Code Development System, we recommend you update MPLAB to a version no greater than 7.50.

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