Path: csiph.com!xmission!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED!nerds-end From: "lucretia9@lycos.co.uk" Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: 8-bit processor specific techniques Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 07:30:54 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Compilers Central Lines: 19 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <15-09-019@comp.compilers> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.iecc.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: miucha.iecc.com 1443381007 98098 2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970 (27 Sep 2015 19:10:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@iecc.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 19:10:07 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: code, history, comment Posted-Date: 27 Sep 2015 15:10:07 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:1614 Hi, I've been looking around for anything related to compiler development for 8-bit processors. I'm looking at a couple of projects and one is a z80 based project and one is a compiler. I am wanting to target multiple platforms with the compiler, but I would like to generate z80 as well as 32-64-other-bit platforms. Is there any particular research out there that I cannot seem to find that you know of? Is there anything specific I need to know? Should I just generate from an SSA form, or is it just ad-hoc stuff? Thanks, Luke. [There are plenty of compilers for 8 bit machines, particulary at retrocomputing sites, but I don't recall a lot of interesting code generation stuff. They tend to have so few registers and be so irregular that little of the optimization stuff intended for code generation applies. -John]