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Re: Backend compiler basics?
- To: dycheung at cs dot sfu dot ca, lehotsky at sunspot dot tiac dot net
- Subject: Re: Backend compiler basics?
- From: Mike Stump <mrs at windriver dot com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 16:10:54 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
> From: Desmond Cheung <dycheung@cs.sfu.ca>
> Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 14:13:28 -0700 (PDT)
> Does anyone has experienced a similar situation?
Sure.
> Could you give me an approximation how long it'll take?
Sure.
> Just to write the machine.h, machine.c, and machine.md files.
My datapoint: 30 days to write them after you know the basics. And
about 8 years to learn the basics. YMMV.