Porting Gcc to New Processors

Porting Gcc to New Processors

[Dr. Russ Duren]

After spending a hour looking through the online documentation, "Using and 
Porting the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)," I am left with the following 
questions:

1.  Is there a top-level description of the steps required to port the 
compiler collection to a new (currently unsupported) processor?

2.  Does anyone know of a more user-friendly porting document?

Thank you,

Russ Duren




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RE: Porting Gcc to New Processors

[Rupert Wood]

Dr. Russ Duren wrote:

> After spending a hour looking through the online documentation,
> "Using and Porting the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)," I am left
> with the following questions:
:
> 2.  Does anyone know of a more user-friendly porting document?

At the top of http://gcc.gnu.org/readings.html there's Hans-Peter
Nilsson's "Porting GCC for Dunces" - based, I think, on an old thesis
about porting GCC to the CRIS processor.

I looked at this a while ago and my impression was that it gave a good
overview with a few sketch details. You'll find yourself referring back
to the GCC manual before long, though.

Hope that helps,
Rup.