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From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] splitting the compiler
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 16:53:08 +0000
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ozan s yigit <oz@blue.cs.yorku.ca> writes:

> "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net> writes:
> 
> > I'm pretty familiar with GCC internals, and it's pretty darn
> > portable.  But perhaps there's a whole level of portability I'm
> > missing.
> 
> original poster meant retargeting (i think). with (say) lcc, all one has
> to worry about is a relatively straight-forward code generator. a student
> targeted it for ns32000 in about a week. i would expect no more time for
> 8c, but estimate three to six months for gcc.

Hrm, I retargeted GCC (back in the days of version 1) for the old
Clipper chip in about a month.

Thomas