[sdiy] uC languages

[Magnus Danielson]

From: Rainer Buchty <buchty at cs.tum.edu>
Subject: RE: [sdiy] uC languages
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 03:03:29 +0100 (MET)

> > (In fact I love 68K assembly the most)
> 
> 11th commandment:
> 	Thou shalt not use any assembly language besides 6502 and 6809.

Not entierly correct. If you are fluent in PDP-11 or VAX-11 that is
accepted too. If you usually hack on your private PDP-10 or Cray-1,
then you are certainly allowed to deviate!

Nobody has volenteered to do an Alpha based thing! I *really* want one
;O)

But seriously. People complain about not being able to get C compilers
for microprocessors. There is one out there which do have things like
ARM, AVR, 68k, 68HC11, S390 support and you can find out more about it
here:

http://www.fsf.org/software/gcc/gcc.html

You can (if you are a bit handy) add more support to it.

It does quite alot of various optimization tricks and they keep adding
to them. There are allways some commercial compilers that are better
on some architecture, but GCC do a hell of a job most of the
time. It's not bad. There are still things to improve, but that is
especially on modern RISCs.

Cheers,
Magnus