[LLVMdev] New 8bit micro controller back-end

Guillaume Deroire gderoire at gmail.com
Mon Nov 23 07:31:55 PST 2009


Ok great news but as currently I don't have the "know what to do", it would
probably take longer...
I suppose your estimate only include backend update.

Can I have more detail about the Simulator/Debugger part(at an assembler
level?) ? I'm not sure if LLVM is able to provide such functionalities.

2009/11/23 Anton Korobeynikov <anton at korobeynikov.info>

> Hello
>
> > It is a RISC with around 60 instructions like a 80c51 instruction set
> > (without mul/div) and with Direct or indirect memory acces.
> My estimate is something like a man-week for a person, who knows what to do
> :)
>
> I guess the instruction set is pretty similar to msp430's for which we
> already have a backend. In such situation you might just grab this
> backend, remove all 16-bit stuff (basically, 8 bit and 16 bit are
> quite "parallel" there) and tweak stuff a bit.
>
> --
> With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov
> Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University
>
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