From: Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
To: Mike Stump <mrs@apple.com>
Cc: dooms@student.info.ucl.ac.be (Grégoire Dooms), gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: porting gcc
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 10:05:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15798.36098.478670.653519@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <59BE9346-E607-11D6-802D-000393941EE6@apple.com>
Mike Stump writes:
> On Tuesday, October 22, 2002, at 12:09 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gr=E9goire=5FDooms?= writes:
> >> I'd like to port gcc to the Microchip PIC 8 bit microcontroller
> >> familly.
> >
> > Ouch. Are you really sure that you want to do this?
>
> Sure. They aren't going to run gtk+ on it, promise, but I don't see
> any reason why:
>
> char c1, c2, c3;
>
> main() {
> c1 = c2 + c3;
> }
>
> can't work at least as well as the existing compilers for PIC.
Sure, but at some point you're going to spill and then you'll need some
reasonably efficient mechanism to index a stack frame.
I guess it depends on which PIC variant we're talking about -- it
looks as though the new PIC18CXXX will work quite well, but I wasn't
aware of that variant when I posted.
Andrew.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-23 11:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-22 9:53 Grégoire Dooms
2002-10-22 9:56 ` Grégoire Dooms
2002-10-22 14:40 ` Mike Stump
2002-10-22 14:43 ` Andrew Haley
2002-10-22 15:16 ` Michael Matz
2002-10-22 15:27 ` Svein E. Seldal
2002-10-22 18:02 ` Mike Stump
2002-10-23 10:05 ` Andrew Haley [this message]
2002-10-22 15:50 ` Denis Chertykov
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-10-20 10:20 Aurélien Buhrig
2008-10-20 19:34 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2008-03-12 6:11 Porting gcc Schmave
2008-03-12 6:15 ` Ben Elliston
2004-06-04 15:24 Porting GCC Gyle Yearsley
2004-06-02 16:49 Gyle Yearsley
2004-06-03 15:38 ` Richard Sandiford
2004-05-21 13:09 Porting gcc Mile Davidovic
2004-05-21 13:43 ` Dave Korn
2003-08-13 11:15 Petar Penchev
2003-08-13 16:07 ` Ben Elliston
2001-02-15 8:41 porting gcc Filippo Basso
2001-02-15 9:50 ` Fergus Henderson
2001-02-01 2:37 porting GCC Krzysztof Matula
2001-02-01 3:10 ` Richard Earnshaw
2001-02-02 3:43 ` Krzysztof Matula
2001-02-02 4:00 ` Richard Earnshaw
2001-02-02 6:07 ` Krzysztof Matula
2001-02-02 7:08 ` Richard Earnshaw
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