RFC: split ColdFire from m68k backend

Rogelio Serrano rogelio@smsglobal.net
Fri May 7 08:27:00 GMT 2004


Hi

Is cross compilation good enough as a test setup? Im writing 
code for a dragonball embedded board.


On 2004-05-07 15:43:56 +0800 Kazu Hirata <kazu@cs.umass.edu> 
wrote:

> Hi Giovanni,
> 
>>> One thing that would be nice to have is to convert the
>>> prologue/epilogue to RTL.
> 
> This sounds like a good idea.
> 
>> Also, m68k is the major cc0 target at the moment. Making it 
>> drop cc0 support
>> would help cleaning up the compiler. You can ask Kazu Hirata, 
>> as he lately
>> modified h8300 to drop cc0.
> 
> As Paolo pointed out, I have not checked in this change.  I am
> thinking about doing so after the tree-ssa merge, provided that
> somebody will review my middle-end patches that aim at 
> preserving the
> code quality when the h8300 port moves from cc0 to MODE_CC.
> 
> By the way, I am wondering if there is anybody out there 
> testing the
> m68k port on some kind of simulator.  Without that, making a 
> large
> change to the port would be very difficult.
> 
> Kazu Hirata
> 



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