Good morning!
Am 21.08.22 um 07:27 schrieb Michael Havenga:
Morning Everyone,
Would it be wrong in saying there is some level of renewed interest in
the PIC support and if the automated testing has been reviewed could
that potentially lead to a release at some point ?
Have a great day.
Michael A Havenga
That assessment of the situation is not wrong, but it is not entirely
right, either.
The PIC backends are still part of every official release, but
individual distributors might not be willing to distribute SDCC binaries
with unstable, unmaintained parts of the code enabled.
The path to _stable_ PIC backends is as follows:
- Stabilize the build process -- it is currently hit or miss
- Stabilize regression testing itself
- Stabilize the compiler, minimizing the number of crashes during
regression testing
- Fix the code generator so that all (or most) regression tests pass
Needless to say, the fourth step requires extensive knowledge of the PIC
platform and will likely be the hardest.
However, from a distributor's point of view, the software package itself
would already be stable after the completion of step three.
As always: Contributions are welcome!
Greetings,
Benedikt
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