Backend compiler basics?

[Mike Stump]

> From: Desmond Cheung <dycheung@cs.sfu.ca>
> Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 14:13:28 -0700 (PDT)

> Does anyone has experienced a similar situation?

Sure.

> Could you give me an approximation how long it'll take?

Sure.

> Just to write the machine.h, machine.c, and machine.md files.

My datapoint: 30 days to write them after you know the basics.  And
about 8 years to learn the basics.  YMMV.