SDCC - free open source, retargettable, optimizing ANSI-C compiler
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Welcome to SDCC, free open source, retargettable, optimizing ANSI C compiler
that supports a growing list of processors including the Intel mcs51
family, the Zilog z80, the Maxim ds390 and ds400, the Motorola HC08 and the
PIC16 and PIC18 familiy.

See share/sdcc/doc/INSTALL.txt for the installation instructions for
the binary kits.

See the share/sdcc/doc directory for more documentation.

See http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/ for the latest information on sdcc.


License:
SDCC is licensed under the GNU Public license (GPL) v2.  Note that
this license covers the code to the compiler and other executables,
but explicitly does not cover any code or objects generated by sdcc.
We have not yet decided on a license for the run time libraries, but
it will not put any requirements on code linked against it. See:

 http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html


Support:
SDCC is a collaborative effort between a group of volunteers.  Please
feel free to report bugs via the Sourceforge bug tracker, or to ask
questions on the user mailing list.  See:

 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=100599&group_id=599&func=browse

 http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=599


Notes:
* The ds400, pic14 and pic16 are currently experimental, but work is in
progress. Please check http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/snap.php for snapshots.
* The TININative, gbz80, avr and xa51 targets are no longer maintained.

Roadmap:
COPYING         - GPL v2
as/             - Assembler, derived from asxxxx
debugger/
device/         - Device libraries and examples
doc/            - sdcc and target specific documentation
link/           - Linker, also derived from asxxxx
sim/            - Simulator (mcs51 only)
src/            - Source to the C compiler and targets
support/        - Libraries and apps that may not be provided by your system.


Authors and interested persons:
* Sandeep Dutta (sandeep AT users.sourceforge.net)

* Jean Loius-VERN      <jlvern AT writeme.com>
* Daniel Drotos        <drdani AT mazsola.iit.uni-miskolc.hu>
* Kevin Vigor          <kevin AT vigor.nu>
* Johan Knol           <johan.knol AT iduna.nl>
* Scott Dattalo        <scott AT dattalo.com>
* Karl Bongers         <karl AT turbobit.com>
* Bernhard Held        <bernhard AT bernhardheld.de>
* Frieder Ferlemann    <frieder.ferlemann AT web.de>
* Jesus Calvino-Fraga  <jesusc AT ece.ubc.ca>
* Borut Razem          <borut.razem AT siol.net>
* Vangelis Rokas       <vrokas AT otenet.gr>
* Erik Petrich         <epetrich AT ivorytower.norman.ok.us>
* Paul Stoffregen      <paul AT pjrc.com>
* Michael Hope         <michaelh AT juju.net.nz> <nz_michaelh AT yahoo.com>
* Maarten Brock        <sourceforge.brock AT dse.nl>
* Raphael Neider       <RNeider AT web.de>
* Hans-Juergen Dorn    <hans.dorn AT apl-landau.de>
* Klaus Flittner       <klaus_flittner AT gmx.de>
* Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk AT spth.de>

SDCC includes code from:
* Alan Baldwin      <baldwin AT shop-pdp.kent.edu>
   Initial version of ASXXXX and  ASLINK. 
* John Hartman      <noice AT noicedebugger.com>
   Porting ASXXXX and ASLINK for 8051.
* Dmitry S. Obukhov <dso AT usa.net>
   malloc and serial I/O routines.
* Pascal Felber
   Some of the Z80 related files are borrowed from the Gameboy
   Development Kit (GBDK).
* The GCC development team http://gcc.gnu.org/
   The basis of sdcpp preprocessor