[fpc-devel] Blackfin support

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Jeppe Johansen schrieb:

> I would be interested in knowing whether it would be feasible to create 
> DSP backends for FPC. I recently had the experience of using a TMS320C26 
> which probably has to be programmed in assembler due to the limits of 
> the instruction set. But I hear newer DSPs use instruction sets geared 
> alot more towards highlevel compilers

This IMO would require new language elements, for parallel/vector 
operations, dedicated libraries, or *very* clever optimizers. A 
general-purpose language like Pascal is not suited for coding DSP 
operations.

DoDi