Re: Codewarrior vs. Cosmic C for Freescale 9S08

On Feb 28, 7:45 am, Mr. C <fakeem...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have the fun (?) task of picking a compiler/debugger to use for the
Freescale MC9S08 family of microcontrollers. I have narrowed it down
to two: Codewarrior from Metrowerks (a Freescale company), and Cosmic
C. I have used Cosmic C before in a command line mode, but did not
have the debugger and so did not use it. Another peer has used
Codewarrior and generally liked it. I have CW installed and am
starting to play with it and it seems a little weird, but I am still
trying to get used to it.

I'm probably just going to echo some of your own feelings, but here
goes:

At a previous employer, we used Cosmic for HC908 projects. Cosmic does
a good job. And I prefer CodeWright and make to any IDE, probably
because I don't have to learn (and remember) new tools every time I
switch target platforms.

I once received a demo CD for CodeWarrior with an eval kit, but never
used it, so I can't relly comment on that. All the sample code that
came with the kit used the impenetrable Code Warrior project files,
and were useless to me for that reason. I guess that's one reason I
dislike IDE's -- nonstandard binary project file formats that lock you
into the tool.

HTH,
-=Dave

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