Re: Porting GCC to 8051 Microcontroller

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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.
>>
> 


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