14 Feb
2002
14 Feb
'02
11:30 p.m.
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 10:24:30AM +0000, P.A.Osborne wrote:
The reason I want the compiler is that it will
generate standalone 16
bit code on a sensible platform. GCC doesnt produce 16 bit code as
far as I am aware - so personally I thought it would be amusing (I
must be mad) to use tools that run under DOS (well OS/2).
support for PDP-11 was added to gcc a few months ago. I don't think
it's been well tested, but support exists in current versions of
binutils and gcc.
http://pdp11.nocrew.org/
there's also support for the m68hc11/12 which are 16-bit.
it seems like support for 80{,1,2}86 in gcc should be possible; it just
hasn't been done yet.
another compiler that might be worth looking at is SDCC
http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/ which is currently targeted towards 8-bit
MCUs.
of course bootstrapping via the original K&R compiler would be the
"classic" way to do it, though. ;)
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