Porting GCC

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From: Craig A. Baxter
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 14:37

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I am considering porting GCC to a CPU with an RISC core.  Is it wrong to assume
that the major task in doing this is to write a good machine description for
the target, and then rebuild the compiler with that md?

Does anyone have any idea how long it took to port GCC to some other machines,
e.g. MIPS, SPARC, 80386?

Does GCC make any assumptions about the target that cannot be overcome via the
machine description?


Thanks for your time.
                                Craig Baxter (craig@cs.softech.com)

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