maybe some comments from me about SDCC, as i am one of the few guys who has write access to the sdcc cvs at sourceforge. now for 1 1/2 year i am not working for this project due to privat reasons ... so still some files are left on cvs ...

i am still using sdcc for development of different projects that have more than 10 source files, each including a couple of other files. the source contains some state machines that act as tasks and a lot of software and hardware interupts. sdcc works fine to compile the stuff and generates a good code. i have the possability to compare the output with that what keil V6 produces and i must say they are equal. in some cases sdcc is better in some keil ... so no winner or looser.
sdcc is free and the other fellows still working on that project are quick in responding and removing bugs (yes sdcc has some, but keil too!!!!) i have seen getting rid of nasty bugs within less than one hour if the right person on that project has time to search and remove the bug.

sdcc was a bit of pain in installing it some versions ago, i fully agree with that, but now it is very easy. it runs stable.

i agree that in some cases it is better to use asm (speed) but we have deceided to remove the asm, as it has happend so often that we had to use the code but replace the cpu. shit happens ...

now feel free to try sdcc it just costs you the time to download it. there are two mailing lists that give support. one is for all, one is for the developer.

regard michael