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Re: question about RTL
- To: Mueller-Lehnitz at t-online dot de (Anja M ller)
- Subject: Re: question about RTL
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0600
- cc: help-gcc at gnu dot org, gnu at gnu dot org
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <3808B417.243EE45D@t-online.de>you write:
> microprocessor. So to explain it in another way: we shall try to program
> another backend for the gcc, if it is possible.
It's certainly possible. GCC supports at least two dozen different
architectures.
> Transfer Language. Our Question to you is:
> Do you think that it is possible to use the RTL-Code to solve our
> problem ?
Yes.
> We've also read in this document that it is possible to expand the GCC
> for new machine types by the machine description files. But we think,
> that this way is to dfficult for us.
This is by far the easiest way to add a new port to gcc; write a backend
machine description.
jeff