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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.