Re: food for thought - picforth as compiler back-end

Samuel Tardieu <[email protected]> 29 Dec 2004 12:05:44 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.forth.picforth
Organization Avian Carrier & Friends
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> "David" == David McNab <[email protected]> writes:

David> PicForth could be used as a back-end for compilers of other
David> high-level languages such as Python, C, Ruby etc.

The lack of indexed addressing in PIC 16Fxxx makes it hard to build
efficient stack frames. The newer 18Fxxx have a much better
instruction set in extended mode.

  Sam
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