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Backend Programming
- From: "Eric Robert" <synapzzz at hotmail dot com>
- To: <gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 20:32:00 -0400
- Subject: Backend Programming
Hi,
I would like to use GCC to program some types of microcontrollers
(microchip's PIC if it's of any interest) and I would like to know the
amount of work involved in writing a backend for this very small chip?
It has very few instructions and very few registers.
In fact, it's probably very near some already existing backend so,
hopefully, I won't have to start from scratch. I don't have any
experience in GCC but I have a strong background in C/C++. So, just to
summarize:
1. How much time anyone thinks it takes?
2. Any pointers to what I have to do?
Note: I don't need any part of the standard libraries.
Eric Robert
Software Engineer