SDCC
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
2warn against
Dec 1, 2025first mention
Sep 19, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Whereas sdcc works brilliantly for z80 lineage processors.”
embedded developeron “SDCC – Small Device C Compiler”
“even SDCC has uptodate C standard support (better than MSVC actually)”
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“Im just happy to finally have an 8-bit C compiler that supports both targets”
Caveats and dissent
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- SDCC – Small Device C Compiler 5 mentions
- Dependable C 1 mention
- LLVM-MOS – Clang LLVM fork targeting the 6502 1 mention
Data: sdcc.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 7
“but SDCC indeed ignored 'volatile'”
“I use SDCC for 8051.”
“Whereas sdcc works brilliantly for z80 lineage processors.”
“because SDCC's output was not optimized”
“I used it for some toy projects never ran into "bugs" as in this is just broken, but it's quirky for sure.”
“even SDCC has uptodate C standard support (better than MSVC actually)”
“Im just happy to finally have an 8-bit C compiler that supports both targets”