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Re: New Port Contribution
- From: <tm_gccmail at mail dot kloo dot net>
- To: law at redhat dot com
- Cc: Dan Towner <dant at picochip dot com>,Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 17:02:22 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: New Port Contribution
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 law at redhat dot com wrote:
> >I've not heard of the previous pico port. The picoChip port is a
> >brand-new port for a 16-bit DSP, which has been designed and
> >manufactured over the last 18 months or so.
> It's certainly possible it's a completely different chip. You might
> check out gcc/config/pj/* from the attic just to be sure (the pj port
> was deprecated some time ago due to lack of a maintainer).
>
> Jeff
It's a port to the Sun picoJava chip.
I experimented with the picoJava port a while back. It does not appear
to be a general-purpose backend. It only worked properly for Java source
and did not work properly for other languages.
Toshi