Re: [ECOS] Porting Tools?

["Robert Ritchey" <RRRitchey at ACM dot Org>]

What I was talking about was the eCos patches applied to binutils, gcc, c++
and gdb.  I do not have the terminology down yet.  I wanted to know how
those patches are made.  They do not appear to be as difficult as a "port"
of gcc to a new architecture.

At 12:00 AM 3/2/01 +0000, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
>Robert Ritchey wrote:
> >
> > So you are saying that if I want to use eCos with the IDT79RC32332/4 which
> > is MIPS II compliant I have a major port of the tools?
>
>Well, if you only want a mips II compiler, then compile a mips-elf set of
>tools. I think mips2 is even the default ISA.
>
>But if the 32332 adds any extensions that are not supported in gcc that you
>want gcc to use, that requires more effort. I was assuming by "porting" you
>meant this.
>
>Jifl
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