2.6 Reading the Documentation
Currently reading the document in pdf format is recommended, as for
unknown reason the hyperlinks are working there whereas in the html
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If you should know why please drop us a note.
You'll find the pdf version at
http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/doc/sdccman.pdf.
This documentation is in some aspects different from a commercial
documentation:
- It tries to document SDCC for several processor architectures in one
document (commercially these probably would be separate documents/products).
This document currently matches SDCC
for mcs51 and DS390 best and does give too few information about f.e.
Z80, PIC14, PIC16 and HC08.
- There are many references pointing away from this documentation. Don't
let this distract you. If there f.e. was a reference like http://www.opencores.orgtogether with a statement ”some processors which are targeted by
SDCC can be implemented in a field programmable gate
array” or http://sourceforge.net/projects/fpgac/
”have you ever heard of an open source compiler that compiles a
subset of C for an FPGA?” we expect you to have a quick look there
and come back. If you read this you are on the right track.
- Some sections attribute more space to problems, restrictions and warnings
than to the solution.
- The installation section and the section about the debugger is intimidating.
- There are still lots of typos and there are more different writing
styles than pictures.