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Motorola 56156 compiler info needed

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From: Bob Pisacane
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 12:05
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Hi there folks,

I am currently managing a project in voice encryption which uses the
new Motorola 56156 DSP chip.  My question is this:

We have checked with Motorola and Domain Technologies (the
manufacturer of our 56156 emulation package) and as far as we can
tell there is no "C" compiler available for this chip.  We are
currently using the assembler we got from Domain, but this is a long
and tedious process, especially in light of the fact that much of
the code we need to use on this chip, has already been written in
"C" for use on the 56001 chip, which was a previous generation of
this product.  

Does anyone out there know if there is a compiler available for this
chip from any source? (GNU etc.)

You can respond to bpisacan@world.std.com directly, and/or post any
information you think might be useful.

Presently we are taking the assembly language output from the 56001
compiler, and modifying it for the 56156.  This is not a fruitful
effort as it is extremely error prone.  Our only alternative is to
re-write lots of code in assembly language, a process in itself
quite error prone.

any information would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Bob Pisacane
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From: bpisacan@world.std.com (Bob Pisacane)
Newsgroups: comp.dsp
Subject: Motorola 56156 compiler info needed
Summary: Request for information on possible 56156 compiler
Keywords: 56156 compiler
Message-ID: <BuD2xq.684@world.std.com>
Date: 10 Sep 92 12:05:50 GMT
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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