Re: Porting GCC to 8051 Microcontroller

["Ganesh" <ganesh at acmet dot com>]

I haven't said that I don't understand the steps involved. I have just now 
started to work on it. I want to check whether if anyone have ever tried 
this port and successfully completed it.

Thanks for your input (gccint info file).


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Haley" <aph@redhat.com>
To: "Ganesh" <ganesh@acmet.com>
Cc: <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: Porting GCC to 8051 Microcontroller


> Ganesh wrote:
> > I am planning to do GCC porting for 8051 Microcontroller.
> >
> > Kindly send me the steps involved in this project.
>
> Well, if you don't understand the steps involved I don't see
> why you're planning to do the port.  The 8051 architecture has
> a number of features that will make it very hard to generate
> code with gcc.
>
> The gccint info file has most of the info you need to do the
> port.
>
> Andrew.