Hello, Le lundi 06 mars 2006 à 13:39 +0000, Colm O' Flaherty a écrit : > Francois, > > I'm really interested in getting a gcc port (gcc backend) for the Microchip > PIC16F family (14 bit instruction, 8 bit word) up and running. I've seen > various mails to the gcc list that refer to this, the most recent being from > you. It a good question. I think 18F is clearly C-oriented architecture, whereas coding C on 16F is not very efficient. In the other hand, 16F is quite simple,it could be a good example, and I better know 16F assembly than 18F assembly (I always coded 18F in C). > > Can you summarise the current status of your port, or any other active gcc > PIC ports that you are aware of? For the moment, I am only studying internal gcc documentation. I will be quite busy until june month, so I don't planned anything for the moment.
About this subject, if a french people know well gcc machine descriptor language, I am interessed in being mailled by him, to learn more about that. > > There is an existing open-source C compiler with PIC support (SDCC) that > I've used, but my experience with this is that it isn't as scalable as I > would like (particularly for device support), whereas gcc is a well known > compiler with a solid code base, great platform support, and comes with > pretty much every Linux distribution I've ever seen. I think so. > > Am I mistaken in thinking that if we got a gcc PIC backend up and running, > that we would be able to code for PICs in C, C++, Fortran, Ada, and Java > (subject to memory limitations, etc)??? Thats a dream... I think so, and it's also the dream of a friend. Really, gcc seems have a different behaviour for C-C++ and the others. I can't tell more about that subject, and as far I am concerned, I don't have the competences and the will to use Java on Pic. > > Colm O' Flaherty Francois Poulain
