Re: C54x port: some general technical questions

2005-05-04 Thread Paul Schlie
> James E Wilson >> Jonathan Bastien-Filiatrault wrote: >> * We have defined BIT_PER_WORD to 16 and UNITS_PER_WORD to 1. On this >> DSP, there are two 40-bits accumulators. How do we make GCC take >> advantage of this and which machine mode do we use ? > > GCC has little support for non-power-of-2

Re: C54x port: some general technical questions

2005-05-04 Thread Paul Koning
> "James" == James E Wilson writes: James> On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 06:00, Paul Koning wrote: >> I wonder if the work-in-progress PDP10 port >> (http://pdp10.nocrew.org/gcc/) might help with this. James> Interesting, but a hobbyist port for a 36-bit machine that was James> end-of-lifed abo

Re: C54x port: some general technical questions

2005-05-04 Thread James E Wilson
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 06:00, Paul Koning wrote: > I wonder if the work-in-progress PDP10 port > (http://pdp10.nocrew.org/gcc/) might help with this. Interesting, but a hobbyist port for a 36-bit machine that was end-of-lifed about 2 decades ago has little chance of success, unless there are some v

Re: C54x port: some general technical questions

2005-05-04 Thread Paul Koning
> "James" == James E Wilson writes: James> Jonathan Bastien-Filiatrault wrote: >> * We have defined BIT_PER_WORD to 16 and UNITS_PER_WORD to 1. On >> this DSP, there are two 40-bits accumulators. How do we make GCC >> take advantage of this and which machine mode do we use ? James> GCC

Re: C54x port: some general technical questions

2005-05-03 Thread James E Wilson
Jonathan Bastien-Filiatrault wrote: * We have defined BIT_PER_WORD to 16 and UNITS_PER_WORD to 1. On this DSP, there are two 40-bits accumulators. How do we make GCC take advantage of this and which machine mode do we use ? GCC has little support for non-power-of-2 sized accumulators. Traditionall

Re: C54x port: some general technical questions

2005-04-29 Thread Joe Buck
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 04:10:57PM -0400, Jonathan Bastien-Filiatrault wrote: >Me and Brian Richter are in the early development stage of the TI > C54x DSP port of GCC. We have some technical/project management questions. > I'll > keep it short, so here it is: > > * How do we officially becom

C54x port: some general technical questions

2005-04-29 Thread Jonathan Bastien-Filiatrault
Hello every one, Me and Brian Richter are in the early development stage of the TI C54x DSP port of GCC. We have some technical/project management questions. I'll keep it short, so here it is: * How do we officially become maintainers of this port ? We are presently in the process of filling ou

Re: c54x port

2005-04-25 Thread James E Wilson
Bryan Richter wrote: Can someone assist me in getting the necessary copyright assignment forms? See http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-06/msg02298.html for info on how to get the process started. -- Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com

Re: c54x port

2005-04-23 Thread Bryan Richter
ng it over for a day, I now realize that developing it separately is not wise. As such, I'm now volunteering to develop the c54x port directly in the main tree. Can someone assist me in getting the necessary copyright assignment forms? Thanks, -Bryan -- Bryan Richter UCDTT President UC Davi

Re: c54x port

2005-04-23 Thread Bryan Richter
Joe Buck wrote: > Maybe not so cool, unless you are careful. The problem is that if you > don't keep track of who submitted what, or if you accept some critical > code from someone who is either unwilling or unable to legally contribute > their work to the FSF, it can never be accepted as part of

Re: c54x port

2005-04-23 Thread Joe Buck
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 06:10:19PM -0700, Bryan Richter wrote: > I am working on porting GCC to the TI C54x. Cool. > months, similar to others who have attempted this project, but I am now > in the process of setting up a repository on BerliOS so I can work with > others. Maybe not so cool, unle

c54x port

2005-04-21 Thread Bryan Richter
Hello everyone, I am working on porting GCC to the TI C54x. I have worked alone for a few months, similar to others who have attempted this project, but I am now in the process of setting up a repository on BerliOS so I can work with others. Thus, the primary purpose of this email is to introduce