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From: rick@electro.UUCP (Rick Kozak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: MC6811 cross compiler wanted
Summary: Beware!
Message-ID: <122@electro.UUCP>
Date: 5 Oct 88 19:54:30 GMT
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Reply-To: rick@electro.UUCP (Rick Kozak)
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Organization: Electrohome Ltd., Kitchener, ON
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In article <798@ncar.ucar.edu> cmiller@hao.ucar.edu (Charlie Miller) writes:
>Does anyone know of any UNIX-based 'c' language cross-compilers available 
>for the MC68xx (6800, 6809, 6811...) family of uP's. 

Yes, we have purchased a 68hc11 c compiler from Intermetrics, Inc, in 
Cambridge, MA. It works, but that's about it. This is the first version
that they had released, and it generates code **** much **** slower than if
you hand coded it in assembly. 

We have a beta test version in site of the second release of the compiler
which is significantly faster, produced much tighter code, and actually
optimized the code slightly. There seems to be a problem, although, with 
some of the tools supplied with the compiler not being compatible with the
new compiler ... we are checking into this problem.

In general though, we have had problems with Intermetrics technical support
not being able to answer questions about their compiler, difficulties tracking
down bugs, etc.

We warn, if you are doing anything remotely time critical, do it in assembly.

- Rick