Re: [Tinycc-devel] Very sorry - newbie questions

[KHMan]

On 3/16/2017 12:33 AM, Tony Robinson wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 12:45:08 +0800
> > From: KHMan <address@hidden>
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> > Subject: Re: [Tinycc-devel] Very sorry - newbie questions
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> > Just curious, I assume your project has to do with electronics
> > hardware in some form real or virtual, and related to embedded
> > hardware -- so I would like to ask one thing: Have you considered
> > SDCC? If so, would you like to comment on any TCC vs SDCC
> > considerations with regards to your project needs? (It is not my
> > intention to compare and declare winners, but only curious to
> > learn which one fits particular needs better in your case...)
>
> My impression was that SDCC is the right choice if you wanted to
> run on one of the supported processors, or had a lot of resources
> behind you and wanted to provide really good support for a new
> processor.
>
> The manual says "8.3 Retargetting for other Processors: The issues
> for retargetting the compiler are far too numerous to be covered
> by this document."  It does point to a very brief wiki page,
> http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/SDCC_internals_and_porting,
> for which the main link is broken.   There's pointers to two
> threads which don't see relevant.
>
> So, in summary, I felt I had no chance with SDCC, it's too big and
> porting isn't documented.

Yeah, I had a look at its source code way back in the past and 
didn't go further. I'm a lurker both here and there, getting code 
written gets in the way of hacking at a open source compiler...

> That won't stop me using the floating point support though!

Any pros and cons versus Berkeley SoftFloat?

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Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Selangor, Malaysia