Re: [Tinycc-devel] Very sorry - newbie questions

[Tony Robinson]

> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 12:45:08 +0800
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> Just curious, I assume your project has to do with electronics
> hardware in some form real or virtual, and related to embedded
> hardware -- so I would like to ask one thing: Have you considered
> SDCC? If so, would you like to comment on any TCC vs SDCC
> considerations with regards to your project needs? (It is not my
> intention to compare and declare winners, but only curious to
> learn which one fits particular needs better in your case...)

My impression was that SDCC is the right choice if you wanted to run on 
one of the supported processors, or had a lot of resources behind you 
and wanted to provide really good support for a new processor.

The manual says "8.3 Retargetting for other Processors: The issues for 
retargetting the compiler are far too numerous to be covered by this 
document."  It does point to a very brief wiki page, 
http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/SDCC_internals_and_porting, 
for which the main link is broken.   There's pointers to two threads 
which don't see relevant.

So, in summary, I felt I had no chance with SDCC, it's too big and 
porting isn't documented.

That won't stop me using the floating point support though!


Tony