From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 875 invoked by alias); 7 May 2008 09:55:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 864 invoked by uid 22791); 7 May 2008 09:55:03 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp.net4india.com (HELO smtp.net4india.com) (202.71.129.67) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 07 May 2008 09:54:36 +0000 Received: from [122.165.1.202] (helo=Ganesh) by smtp.net4india.com with smtp (Exim 4.51) id 1JtgLr-0001fr-6m; Wed, 07 May 2008 15:24:19 +0530 Message-ID: <022f01c8b028$511cee10$c301a8c0@Ganesh> From: "Ganesh" To: "Andrew Haley" Cc: References: <017101c8b014$16001dc0$c301a8c0@Ganesh> <48216518.2050204@redhat.com> Subject: Re: Porting GCC to 8051 Microcontroller Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 10:03:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="Windows-1252"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2008-05/txt/msg00081.txt.bz2 I haven't said that I don't understand the steps involved. I have just now started to work on it. I want to check whether if anyone have ever tried this port and successfully completed it. Thanks for your input (gccint info file). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Haley" To: "Ganesh" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 1:45 PM Subject: Re: Porting GCC to 8051 Microcontroller > Ganesh wrote: >> I am planning to do GCC porting for 8051 Microcontroller. >> >> Kindly send me the steps involved in this project. > > Well, if you don't understand the steps involved I don't see > why you're planning to do the port. The 8051 architecture has > a number of features that will make it very hard to generate > code with gcc. > > The gccint info file has most of the info you need to do the > port. > > Andrew. >