Advice needed on GCC port to new (virtual) architecture

[Nathan Sidwell]

gareth@autopia.garethnelson.com wrote:
> I am currently working on a VM and would like to port gcc to it in order to simplify the creation of software.
> The VM simulates a processor with a stack pointer (SP), 16 General Purpose Registers, Accumulator and built-in multitasking.
> The instruction set is turing complete and implements stack, conditional branching, unconditional branching and console I/O.
> 
> I would like to generate asm code which can be fed into my own custom assembler and then assembled into flat binary files.
> Does anyone have advice on a similar platform which i can hack on the gcc source for?

do your port from scratch.  attempting to morph an existing port into what you 
want is likely to break in many random bad ways.

nathan
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