Virtual processor design ideas

[Andrew Pinski]

On Feb 19, 2006, at 2:48 PM, Kai Henningsen wrote:

> While you're giving microprocessor design advice ... :-)
>
> For a while now, I've played a bit with creating a gcc port to a 
> virtual
> CPU. Never got very far, mainly because of being rather unsure about
> design choices.
>
> The idea would be to ultimately have just a simulator; the goal is 
> mainly
> to get better understanding of gcc. (As such, it certainly should 
> support
> all languages!)

You know that already know that GCC supports mmix which is a simulator 
only
processor?

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski