A high-level language for a number of Microchip PIC
EditBy: Jal is a high-level language for a number of Microchip PIC (16c84, 16f84, 12c508, 12c509, 16F877) and Ubicom SX (SX18 and SX28) microcontrollers. I created Jal because I did not like any of the low-cost (or free) languages for these chips and implementing a high level language looked like a nice project. Implementing an existing HLL seemed more difficult and less fun than creating my own, so I just started writing the compiler and the language evolved on with it

# Fixed documentation for -include
# Added [no-]asm, [no-]codfile, [no-]log, [no-]lst [no-]Hex.
# IF expr THEN END IF caused the compiler to crash
# Software stack was not being calculated when -no-variable-reuse in effect.
# Directly accessing the 0th element (ch = buf[0]) of a pointer caused either an assertion failure or a segfault
# Fixed COD generation
# Added ID programming support with Pragma ID and PRAGMA IDDATA
# Added movlb 0 to the ISR preamble on 16 bit cores
# Fixed `db & `dw on 16 bit cores
# Fixed PC which was formerly 16 bits, but can be 32 bits on the 16 bit cores.
# Restructed the archive directory layout
# Converted the three major guides (jalv2, jalv2opt, jalv2pragma) to docbook format in the hopes that this will help me keep everything up to date.
# EEPROM data on the 16 bit cores started at location 0 (cause the variable created was only 16 bits, whereas eeprom on the 16 bit cores starts higher than 0xffff). you can free download JAL for Linux 2 2.4m now.