[Icc-mot] Compiler price increase expected Jan 01, 2008. Order now...

[Richard]

[ Some questions about V7 PRO for ICC12 ]

Good question, let me think about it. Certainly I don't mind if 
people pre-purchase V7 PRO.

These features are for sure to be available in first PRO release, 
which should be fairly soon:
- __far for paged function and paged pointers. This uses the same 
mechanism as __flash which we just added to the AVR compiler and that 
partoculare feature is working, so porting it to CPU12 should be 
fairly straight forward

- MIO global optimizer

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XGate, S12X etc. has to wait until later. On a pragmatic level, 
ImageCraft's model is to target mass market chips so we can have a 
large installed base, it's the old Borland $50 Tubro-C model. 
Unfortunately, with Freescale aggressively giving away their software 
tools, the Freescale market is becoming increasing difficult. In the 
end, Freescale is shooting themselves in the foot, but time will tell.

At 05:56 PM 12/5/2007, Richard wrote:
>We expect to increase the list prices of the compilers in 2008. 
>Order now to take advantage of the current lower prices.
>

// richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, 
please use richard at imagecraft.com)