On 2/7/12, Jody Bruchon <jody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Additionally, I'd like to assemble a list of open-source compilers that > can build for 8086 and either are targeted to other 16-bit CPUs or can > be relatively easily retargeted (I use that term loosely with compilers. > If anyone has suggestions for alternative compilers, please email me > with them, and I'll build a list and examine the merits of each against > the others. The only ones I know of are tcc (by Fabrice Bellard), SDCC > (targets Z80 but maybe we can retarget it)...and the venerable Bruce's C > Compiler (bcc) which we already use. I dug up the original (non-Dev86) > source for it and the 6809 target parts are in that version, so maybe I > can figure out how to retarget it if I can dig up a 6809 emulator somewhere. Other alternative compilers: open watcom => http://www.openwatcom.org Free open source, in active development, complete implementation, produces highly optimized code, targets only x86 cpu's. gcc-86 => http://git.etherboot.org/?p=people/dverkamp/gcc.git http://git.etherboot.org/people/hpa/i86-gcc.git/ http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-8086/msg00228.html http://raisama.net/gcc-8086/ http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/16bit/gcc/ Free open source, unofficial, no development, only tiny memory model, produces optimized code, multiple targets. At these moment, I consider more urgent: 1. Make ELKS work as expected. 2. Make C code ansi compliant. 3. Change assembly code to C wherever possible. 4. Rearrange files such that at the upper level directories there are only C, architecture independent code, and below arch/, all assembly and only architecture dependent code. All these ease targeting other cpu's. I'll try to contribute on these. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
