From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: ozan s yigit Message-ID: References: <15484.64496.974395.322869@nanonic.hilbert.space>, <87pu2qy1sk.fsf@becket.becket.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] splitting the compiler Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 16:02:04 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5be74e96-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" 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. oz -- www.cs.yorku.ca/~oz | don't count your chickens in glass houses york u. computer science | until the cows come home. -- david vestal