Re: Porting gcc

[jfox@xxxxxxxx (Jeff Fox)]

Dear MISC readers,

I should mention that iTV has done a C and that Joe sent me some
mail about the observations from the project.

Here is the last paragraph of the mail he sent to me.

>Based on what I have learned about lcc and gcc in the past few months I
>would caution anyone from jumping into a gcc implementation for these type
>of processors. If someone is really interested I would recommend that they
>start by implementing a standard looking macro assembler. Both Andras and I
>have come to the realization that if you do want a high performance machine
>code C then you should start by writing a high performance macro assembler
>(with support for the memory, register, and data type issues). Once you
>have that, writing (or targetting) the C compiler becomes much easier.
>
>Joe

Jeff Fox              jfox@dnai.com    
Ultra Technology Inc. http://www.dnai.com/~jfox/