Hi All,

I have made some examination about these.
You can see it at:
http://www.specs.de/~danni/compars/index.htm

I'm interest on other opinions, especially other C than Keil
and also C on the AVR.

I tried SDC, but I found it many times slower
and not so bug free than Keil (also hard to install
for others than UNIX users).
E.g. on using pointers I get totally false code
in 1 example (a 1 byte pointer was used with 2 bytes and so
the 2. address byte was stolen from the next variable).

I use the Keil V5.02 (1995).
The biggest nuisance for the regulary user was only the Dongle.
Now I found an easy solution to use Keil on my notebook,
but please understand, that I must hold it secret.

I found no hard bug and needed never an update.
But nevertheless the support on the Keil Web was very good.
I asked some times and the answers came quick and were
always useful.

I prefer still the command line version and tried never such
awkward, big and slow Windows tools. Since it needs thousands
of clicks into thousands of submenus.
I edit my linker command file for every new project, thats all.

Nevertheless I like Windows, since its a nice tool to use
many DOS boxes a the same time (1 to edit, 1 to compile,
1 to download, 1 to debug, ...)


Peter