Re: Brutal Deluxe Software releases Merlin 32

Newsgroups	comp.sys.apple2
Date	2015-01-07 05:21 -0800
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Subject	Re: Brutal Deluxe Software releases Merlin 32
From	mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>

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On Wednesday, 7 January 2015 21:51:35 UTC+10, Bill Buckels  wrote:
> "Bill Buckels"  wrote:
> >I wish I was more motivated to write in Assembler.
> 
> Is Merlin 32 suitable for integration into:
> 
> http://llvm.org/

There's been a couple of attempts to develop an llvm backend for the Atmel AVR, so it seems that llvm is flexible enough to support smaller architectures, and it supports a text output emitter that could be used to drive Merlin32.

As you point out though Bill, it's a tough project. Getting it to emit code that works is one thing, and that's probably doable in the shorter term. Generating *good* 816 code is probably an epic job.

Then you're going to need the support libraries, and you'd want most of those to be hand optimised; even on an 816 core functions need to be hand-written assembler for good results.

Matt

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  Re: Brutal Deluxe Software releases Merlin 32 Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com> - 2015-01-06 07:44 -0500
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  Re: Brutal Deluxe Software releases Merlin 32 "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2015-01-06 13:07 -0600
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            Re: Brutal Deluxe Software releases Merlin 32 "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2015-01-07 18:29 -0600
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        Re: Brutal Deluxe Software releases Merlin 32 Hugh Hood <hughhood@earthlink.net> - 2015-01-08 09:51 -0600
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                Re: Brutal Deluxe Software releases Merlin 32 "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2015-01-11 16:53 -0600
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                Re: Brutal Deluxe Software releases Merlin 32 mmphosis <mmphosis@macgui.com> - 2015-02-01 19:29 +0000
                Re: Brutal Deluxe Software releases Merlin 32 Hugh Hood <hughhood@earthlink.net> - 2015-02-01 18:43 -0600
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