From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10236 invoked by alias); 7 May 2008 10:06:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 10227 invoked by uid 22791); 7 May 2008 10:06:04 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 07 May 2008 10:05:36 +0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m47A4wXE025073; Wed, 7 May 2008 06:04:58 -0400 Received: from zebedee.pink (vpn-14-37.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.14.37]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m47A4v2h028687; Wed, 7 May 2008 06:04:58 -0400 Message-ID: <48217EC9.1080307@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 10:15:00 -0000 From: Andrew Haley User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ganesh CC: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Porting GCC to 8051 Microcontroller References: <017101c8b014$16001dc0$c301a8c0@Ganesh> <48216518.2050204@redhat.com> <022f01c8b028$511cee10$c301a8c0@Ganesh> In-Reply-To: <022f01c8b028$511cee10$c301a8c0@Ganesh> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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/msg00083.txt.bz2 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. >> >