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

Re: c54x port

2005-04-25 Thread James E Wilson
Bryan Richter wrote: Can someone assist me in getting the necessary copyright assignment forms? See http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-06/msg02298.html for info on how to get the process started. -- Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com

Re: c54x port

2005-04-23 Thread Bryan Richter
Bryan Richter wrote: > Joe Buck wrote: > > > > > > Please read > > > > http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html > > Right- I've read this and I'm aware of the situation. I am prepared to 'keep > my > ducks in a row'. :) After mulling it over for a day, I now realize that developing it separately is

Re: c54x port

2005-04-23 Thread Bryan Richter
Joe Buck wrote: > Maybe not so cool, unless you are careful. The problem is that if you > don't keep track of who submitted what, or if you accept some critical > code from someone who is either unwilling or unable to legally contribute > their work to the FSF, it can never be accepted as part of

Re: c54x port

2005-04-23 Thread Joe Buck
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 06:10:19PM -0700, Bryan Richter wrote: > I am working on porting GCC to the TI C54x. Cool. > months, similar to others who have attempted this project, but I am now > in the process of setting up a repository on BerliOS so I can work with > others. Maybe not so cool, unle