Hi,
I agree what you mention are valuable reasons.
and I don't have time either :(
Why not file a GSoC project to enhance this port LOL?
Sebastien
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Jan Waclawek <w...@efton.sk> wrote:
> Value of AVR port of SDCC would be the significantly higher flexibility of
> SDCC than GCC, in more then one aspect.
>
> While avr-gcc one one side enjoys the massive investment of various
> companies into GCC, e.g. through the aggressive early optimisations, it also
> suffers from GCC being targeted primarily at "big" processors, e.g. through
> inefficiency in certain operations involving unnecessary integer promotions,
> lack of memory classes support, fixed pointer size (which does not fit all
> situations), to name just a few. It is basically impossible to get a "mere
> mortal's" request through to the developers; and given gcc's vast complexity
> it is hard to setup and maintain a homebrew fork and implement modifications
> into it.
>
> So, it is true, that given avr-gcc's maturity and support from Atmel (they
> have paid employees working on avr-gcc, avr-libc and related projects), it
> is the only good choice of open-source (at least formally) and no-cost C
> compiler for "serious work".
>
> However, I believe that AVR support in SDCC would provide valuable basis
> for experimentation. I played with the AVR backend a couple of hours, and
> while I see it has serious defficiencies, I am now able to compile a very
> simple C source (only assignments) to an avr-as (-gas) accepted form (it is
> still not linkable yet). I believe that with an effort of a couple of
> work-days (and work-nights ;-) ) I would be able to get a simple program
> through the whole chain. Okay, the usual problem: I don't have that time...
>
> Jan Waclawek
>
>
>
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