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: Fri, 09 May 2008 10:35:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48241B9A.4030705@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48217EC9.1080307@redhat.com>
Andrew Haley wrote:
> 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
I've been thinking about this some more. I suspect you could get good
results by generating not 8051 assembly language, which would be gross,
but a simple bytecode engine. It wouldn't be at all fast, but it would
be possible to generate some native code sequences and intermix them
with the bytecode. This would be a reasonable compromise between speed
and code density.
Andrew.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-09 9:40 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
2008-05-09 10:35 ` Andrew Haley [this message]
2008-05-09 15:28 Duane Ellis
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