From tjoccam@crash.cts.com Sun Oct 31 15:49:05 2004
From: Lawrence Dickson <tjoccam@crash.cts.com>
To: Oyvind Teig <Oyvind.Teig@autronica.no>, P.H.Welch <P.H.Welch@ukc.ac.uk>,
     java-threads@ukc.ac.uk, occam-com@ukc.ac.uk
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 07:06:05 -0700
Subject: Re: "No aliasing = no garbage collection"
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Message-ID: <200009251406.HAA05431@cts.com>

On Sep 25,  9:22am, Oyvind Teig wrote:
} Subject: Re: "No aliasing = no garbage collection"
} 
} > >  Microchip Technologies PIC processors
} > >   that zip along in assembly are much cheaper than ones that use C,
} > Well actually there is a PIC 'C' compiler, sold as part of the L150 SDK...
} 
} See:
}   http://gales.ecs.soton.ac.uk/software/spoc/
}   http://gales.ecs.soton.ac.uk/software/spoc/spoc.PIC-linux.tgz
}     May 1999.
}     Sam Ellis's version of SPoC with the PIC back end. This includes 
}     binaries for Intel iA32 linux and ARM linux (!) along with the 
}     sources for the GMD compiler tools and his project report. 
}     It's a good version for a new user to get. 
} 
} -- 
} Oyvind
} 
} @ Oyvind Teig (oyvind.teig@autronica.no, oyvind.teig@computer.org)
} @   Navia Maritime AS, division Autronica, 7005 Trondheim Norway 
} @   Tel: +47 73 58 12 68, Fax: +47 73 58 10 01
} @   http://www.autronica.no/ 
} @   Now part of world's largest company in maritime electronics: 
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} @ Publications at: http://www.autronica.no/pub/tech/rd/index.htm
} 
} 
}-- End of excerpt from Oyvind Teig



This wasn't exactly the point I was making... I was aware of the PICs
built for a C compiler. What I meant to point out was the much smaller,
cheaper PICs with the same capabilities that use assembly - smaller and
cheaper because they don't have to support C stacks, etc. The code 
looks the same in assembly as in C.

Larry