Writing firmware: assembly or high level?

Question

Related to:

• Testing firmware
• starting a microcontroller simulator/emulator
• Interpreting assembly code

If you are writing co

Answer 1

Go for c !

I've worked for a large CE manufacturer. The last time I saw assembly was there was around 1996 in some small interrupt services routines for RC5 and RC6 decoding and TV tuning algorithms. After that always used c, and C++ (only used classes, no stl, exceptions or rtti). I have good experiences with the old KEIL compiler for 8051 and with greenhills compiler (MIPS) and the VxWorks toolset (PowerPC based).

As Roddy says, first write in C , and optimize in assembly later (if needed).