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El Miércoles, 2 de Julio de 2003 09:45, Gabor Kiss [Bitman] escribió:
> > > > Last month, Charles Lepple suggested using device files distributed
> > > > with MPLAB to generate the C header files for SDCC.  These are text
> > > > files which describe each part. Currently, a script uses the .inc
> > > > files in gputils to generate the C header files.  The .inc method
> > > > mostly works, but the device file method would be better.
> > >
> > >     It definetely would be better, but as I have mentioned in earlier
> > > messages there is a problem with the .dev files. The names for the
> > > configuration bits are missing. Actually Microchip uses specific names
> > > suitable for their MPLAB GUI interface. If you can take a look into the
> > > .dev files. I have send twice a message with this problem.
> >
> > Beyond SDCC, I have heard one "maybe" with regard to using .dev files.  I
> > am starting to think that this will be more work than it is worth.  Is
> > your new conversion tool close to being complete?  Are you writing it as
> > a generic front end, to simplify reuse for other applications?
>
> Folks,
>
> Why don't we define a new extensible format of device description files?
> It could contain any info reqired by various applications.
> (Assemblers, linkers, programmers, etc.)
> Let's start project GRUPID. (GRand Unified PIc Descriptor ;-)
>
> Gabor
>
I think is a great idea, I do not have experience with that but I think is a 
good idea :-)

Andres.