Re: C54x port: some general technical questions

2005-05-04 Thread Paul Schlie
> James E Wilson >> Jonathan Bastien-Filiatrault wrote: >> * We have defined BIT_PER_WORD to 16 and UNITS_PER_WORD to 1. On this >> DSP, there are two 40-bits accumulators. How do we make GCC take >> advantage of this and which machine mode do we use ? > > GCC has little support for non-power-of-2

Re: C54x port: some general technical questions

2005-05-04 Thread Paul Koning
> "James" == James E Wilson writes: James> On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 06:00, Paul Koning wrote: >> I wonder if the work-in-progress PDP10 port >> (http://pdp10.nocrew.org/gcc/) might help with this. James> Interesting, but a hobbyist port for a 36-bit machine that was James> end-of-lifed abo

Re: C54x port: some general technical questions

2005-05-04 Thread James E Wilson
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 06:00, Paul Koning wrote: > I wonder if the work-in-progress PDP10 port > (http://pdp10.nocrew.org/gcc/) might help with this. Interesting, but a hobbyist port for a 36-bit machine that was end-of-lifed about 2 decades ago has little chance of success, unless there are some v

Re: C54x port: some general technical questions

2005-05-04 Thread Paul Koning
> "James" == James E Wilson writes: James> Jonathan Bastien-Filiatrault wrote: >> * We have defined BIT_PER_WORD to 16 and UNITS_PER_WORD to 1. On >> this DSP, there are two 40-bits accumulators. How do we make GCC >> take advantage of this and which machine mode do we use ? James> GCC

Re: C54x port: some general technical questions

2005-05-03 Thread James E Wilson
Jonathan Bastien-Filiatrault wrote: * We have defined BIT_PER_WORD to 16 and UNITS_PER_WORD to 1. On this DSP, there are two 40-bits accumulators. How do we make GCC take advantage of this and which machine mode do we use ? GCC has little support for non-power-of-2 sized accumulators. Traditionall

Re: C54x port: some general technical questions

2005-04-29 Thread Joe Buck
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 04:10:57PM -0400, Jonathan Bastien-Filiatrault wrote: >Me and Brian Richter are in the early development stage of the TI > C54x DSP port of GCC. We have some technical/project management questions. > I'll > keep it short, so here it is: > > * How do we officially becom

C54x port: some general technical questions

2005-04-29 Thread Jonathan Bastien-Filiatrault
Hello every one, Me and Brian Richter are in the early development stage of the TI C54x DSP port of GCC. We have some technical/project management questions. I'll keep it short, so here it is: * How do we officially become maintainers of this port ? We are presently in the process of filling ou