On Friday 21 August 2009 23:06, Weddington, Eric wrote: > > On Behalf Of Ruud Vlaming > > > > I think it is about time that the compiler is extended > > Patches welcome. Yes Eric, i was waiting for that response ... it took you just over an hour ;-)
I have looked into it once, but since it is something that has to be done in gcc itself first rather than in the avr-backend, i don't think i am able to write this stuff at the moment. Furthermore, sometimes i have the feeling gcc is going in a direction microcontroller programmers do not want it to, reading the posts appearing on this list about bloating by the newer versions. That would require a switch --microcontroller or so on gcc. And although you are right that i should look at myself when i want a new feature, it is not always feaseable nor sensable to actually do it myself. People with a lot more insight experience and working knowledge probably do this a hunderd times faster than i, so the only thing i wanted to point out is that this wish (calculus with 8 bit ints) exists among many programmers. Thats all. _______________________________________________ AVR-GCC-list mailing list AVR-GCC-list@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-gcc-list
