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Re: how to target the Intel 8051?

From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
To: "Danny Birdie" <Danny dot Birdie at synopsys dot com>
Cc: <gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 16:13:37 +0000
Subject: Re: how to target the Intel 8051?
References: <F2D3A24E93960743937BC39FFFAD8DB5014B8EE6@US01WEMBX3.internal.synopsys.com>

Danny Birdie writes:
 > Hi,
 >   I have some C code targeted for the Intel 8051. How do I go about
 > using GCC to target the 8051, so I can generate an assembly output, or
 > an Intel Hex output.
 > 
 >   Please send me all the necessary instructions/links for this.

The 8051 wouldn't be a good target for gcc.  It's severely register
starved, and the result would be very poor code density.

Andrew.

References:
- how to target the Intel 8051?
  - From: Danny Birdie

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