Re: porting gcc/binutils

2005-12-20 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The original intention was that CGEN would eventually be able to > generate the MD file for GCC. When I last used CGEN 2 years ago, it > was not able to do that at the time, and I suspect the problem is > very complex for real machines [...] There exists a CGEN/SID

RE: porting gcc/binutils

2005-12-20 Thread Meissner, Michael
20, 2005 5:43 PM To: Meissner, Michael Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: porting gcc/binutils Hi Michael, first, thanks for your detailed instructions > If your target is a regular target like a RISC platform, the CGEN system > can be used to simplify building the instructio

Re: porting gcc/binutils

2005-12-20 Thread DJ Delorie
> I have already stumbled over cgen on the net and skimmed the > manual. I have noticed that it uses RTL CPU descriptions, I hope > this code can be reused for gcc machine description file. Nope. The only thing cgen's RTL and gcc's RTL share is the acronym.

RE: porting gcc/binutils

2005-12-20 Thread Andrija Radičević
Hi Michael, first, thanks for your detailed instructions > If your target is a regular target like a RISC platform, the CGEN system > can be used to simplify building the instruction tables: > http://sourceware.org/cgen/ > I have already stumbled over cgen on the net and skimmed the manual.

RE: porting gcc/binutils

2005-12-20 Thread Meissner, Michael
When I used to work for Cygnus Solutions (and then Red Hat after they bought Cygnus in 1999), the general port to an embedded target was typically done in parallel by 3 people (or 3 groups for large ports). Before starting out, somebody would design the ABI (either customer paying for the port, the

Re: porting gcc/binutils

2005-12-15 Thread Mauricio Alvarez
Andrija Radičević wrote: > I'm trying to port gcc and binutils to a new target and I hoped to find > a brief procedure on that matter on the net, but was unsuccessful. OK, > the GCC internals is quite a resourceful document and one can learn a > lot by examining the source tree, but It would be ver

Re: porting gcc/binutils

2005-12-14 Thread Mike Stump
On Dec 14, 2005, at 3:31 PM, Andrija Radičević wrote: I'm trying to port gcc and binutils to a new target and I hoped to find a brief procedure on that matter on the net, but was unsuccessful. OK, the GCC internals is quite a resourceful document and one can learn a lot by examining the source