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Re: porting gcc

From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
To: Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>
Cc: dooms at student dot info dot ucl dot ac dot be (Grégoire Dooms),gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 12:50:26 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Re: porting gcc
References: <15797.41590.824194.255887@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com><59BE9346-E607-11D6-802D-000393941EE6@apple.com>

Mike Stump writes:
 > On Tuesday, October 22, 2002, at 12:09 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
 > > =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gr=E9goire=5FDooms?= writes:
 > >> I'd like to port gcc to the Microchip PIC 8 bit microcontroller 
 > >> familly.
 > >
 > > Ouch.  Are you really sure that you want to do this?
 > 
 > Sure.  They aren't going to run gtk+ on it, promise, but I don't see 
 > any reason why:
 > 
 > char c1, c2, c3;
 > 
 > main() {
 > 	c1 = c2 + c3;
 > }
 > 
 > can't work at least as well as the existing compilers for PIC.

Sure, but at some point you're going to spill and then you'll need some
reasonably efficient mechanism to index a stack frame.

I guess it depends on which PIC variant we're talking about -- it
looks as though the new PIC18CXXX will work quite well, but I wasn't
aware of that variant when I posted.

Andrew.

References:
- porting gcc
  - From: Andrew Haley
- Re: porting gcc
  - From: Mike Stump

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