[fpc-devel] Topic for the list - Embedded port for PIC Micros

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Thu, 23 Jul 2009, schreef Michael Schnell:

> I'd really appreciate the 32 Bit PIC stuff, as this is MIPS and I might
> want to do a NIOS port some day and the NIOS ISA is said to be quite
> similar to MIPS (even the names are only a few bits apart :) )

The main challenge for a MIPS port is the absence of flags, there is a lot 
of code in the compiler that returns expression results in LOC_FLAGS. Of 
course it is perfectly possible to change these codes to use LOC_REGISTER, 
but it is work.

Daniël