From: Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
To: Ganesh <ganesh@acmet.com>
Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Porting GCC to 8051 Microcontroller
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 10:15:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48217EC9.1080307@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <022f01c8b028$511cee10$c301a8c0@Ganesh>
Ganesh wrote:
> 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.
It's very unlikely. It's not completely impossible to do it, but
code quality would probably be poor.
See http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-07/msg00890.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-07/msg01167.html
Andrew.
>> 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.
>>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-07 10:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-07 7:50 Ganesh
2008-05-07 7:57 ` Fabian Cenedese
2008-05-07 11:48 ` Ganesh
2008-05-07 9:55 ` Andrew Haley
2008-05-07 10:03 ` Ganesh
2008-05-07 10:15 ` Andrew Haley [this message]
2008-05-09 10:35 ` Andrew Haley
2008-05-09 15:28 Duane Ellis
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