gnupic: Thread: Re:Bit variables in C

> It's not part of ANSI, but SDCC has support for a `bit' type. This makes sense
> if your target MCU is an 8051 (because of the bit instructions). However, how
> useful is it for the PIC? I'd personally stay away from it since it is not
> portable. OTOH, I'm probably going to keep it in since it's already part of
> SDCC. Any opinions?
> 
> Scott
Hi,

I choose CCS's PCM as C compiler for my PIC projects, because it
supports bit variables. To set a port bit uses one assembler
instruction, a compiler who makes more out of this is useless for fast
applications. I think, C code for a PIC is never portable to any other
architecture.

Ulrich