User manual

MPLAB
®
XC8 C COMPILER
USER’S GUIDE
 2012 Microchip Technology Inc. DS52053B-page 7
Preface
INTRODUCTION
This chapter contains general information that will be useful to know before using the
MPLAB
®
XC8 C Compiler User’s Guide. Items discussed in this chapter include:
• Document Layout
• Conventions Used in this Guide
• Warranty Registration
• Recommended Reading
• The Microchip Web Site
• Development Systems Customer Change Notification Service
• Customer Support
• Document Revision History
DOCUMENT LAYOUT
This document describes how to use the MPLAB XC8 C Compiler. The manual layout
is as follows:
• Chapter 1. Compiler Overview
• Chapter 3. How To’s
• Chapter 4. XC8 Command-line Driver
• Chapter 5. C Language Features
• Chapter 6. Macro Assembler
• Chapter 7. Linker
• Chapter 8. Utilities
• Appendix A. Library Functions
• Appendix B. Error and Warning Messages
• Appendix C. Implementation-Defined Behavior
• Glossary
• Index
NOTICE TO CUSTOMERS
All documentation becomes dated, and this manual is no exception. Microchip tools and
documentation are constantly evolving to meet customer needs, so some actual dialogs
and/or tool descriptions may differ from those in this document. Please refer to our web site
(www.microchip.com) to obtain the latest documentation available.
Documents are identified with a “DS” number. This number is located on the bottom of each
page, in front of the page number. The numbering convention for the DS number is
“DSXXXXXA”, where “XXXXX” is the document number and “A” is the revision level of the
document.
For the most up-to-date information on development tools, see the MPLAB
®
IDE online help.
Select the Help menu, and then Topics to open a list of available online help files.