[LLVMdev] Quest for more targets

Bagel bagel99 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 9 09:25:08 PST 2008


Is anyone working on supporting additional targets used in embedded systems.

I am particularly interested in two:

1. TI MSP430.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI_MSP430
    A nice very low power 16-bit machine with a PDP-11-like instruction set. 
We can assume the PIC16 developers have found and fixed all the 32-bit 
assumptions in the code base.
   Newer versions, the MSP430X series, have extended addressing and 20-bit 
registers!  This complication could be addressed later (perhaps never).

2. ARM Cortex M3.
    This is a Thumb2-only architecture. It would be nice if it were supported 
separately from the rest of the ARM stuff, since that code base is now so 
complicated as to be nearly unreadable to mere mortals.



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