Older CPUs and some fairly modern microcontrollers are not made to readily support C compilers. Among those are the 1802, some 8-bit PICs, and the 6502 at the heart of the Commodore 64.

The compiler’s goal is to take Lisp-style functions and convert them to equivalent C-style function calls. For example: (add 5 (subtract 3 1) would become add(5,subtract(3,1)). Of course ...

Microchip Technology Inc. is making available free of charge its MLAB XC32 C++ compiler with unlimited code generation. The MPLAB XC32++ supports all of Microchip’s 32-bit PIC32 microcontrollers (MCUs ...