Re: Help porting newlib to a new CPU architecture (sorta)

Grant Edwards <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.newlib
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2021-07-06, Joel Sherrill <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think you might get some ideas from the old m6809 port of gcc
>
> http://vectrexc.malban.de/documentation/gcc-6809-documentation
>
> That was an 8 bit CPU with only 64k memory space if I remember everything
> correctly.

The 6809 el al could treat pairs of registers as 16-bit values for
some operations (similar to 8080/Z80). All of the C compilers I've
used for 68xx architecture relied heavily on those 16-bit
register-pair operations.

--
Grant
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.