SDCC is quite "normal" in this regard, i.e. it follows the preprocessor-compiler-assembler-linker model.

Assuming you have a recent version installed (not 2.9.0), for '51[*], these are sdcpp-sdcc[**]-sdas8051-sdld, respectively; all located in the bin subdirectory of the installation directory. You can see the exact invocation of preprocessor, assembler and linker, if you add "-V" switch to the invocation of sdcc (note that switches are case sensitive).


No. You might perhaps want to read chapter 3.1.3 Projects with Multiple Source Files of the manual.


The manual puts it down more precisely:


I think, Maarten Brock once has explained quite concisely the reason, why is it so, but I now can't find it[***], so I try myself (hope I don't get it wrong): when file containing main() is compiled, the interrupt vector table is created (as that contains also the reset vector). So, this file needs to "know", which ISRs are present in the program and under what name, to be able to create that table.

I agree this might be one of the gotchas for the unaware "migrant".

Jan


[*] with the standard installation, you have installed support for *all* targets, i.e. not only '51, but also the extended Dallas '51-s (390 and 400), the Motorola/Freescale HC08, Zilog Z80 (including a gameboy-specific-derivative) and two lines of PICs (but those require some additional software to be installed).

[**] this can be seen as an oddity perhaps. Traditionally, the program called by user to compile - cc - calls all the "components", including the compiler itself (called usually cc1). Here, the compiler itself, sdcc, is invoked by the user; while it calls the preprocessor-assembler-linker, it performs the compilation itself. But this is only a minor, completely unimportant, detail.

[edit][***] found it http://www.8052.com/forumchat/read/166881