While we are discussing new ports... :)

["Svein E. Seldal" <Svein dot Seldal at solidas dot com>]

Hello,

Since we are into this new target discussion, I'd like to ask about the 
status of the new tic4x patch? I submitted a patch one week ago and 
haven't heard a thing since that :) A simple acknowledge in the form of 
"yes, approved & applied" or "no, we would prefer to wait until all 
files of your patch is ready" would be nice, please.... :)

(If there anyone uncertain about this, please go to the project's 
homepage http://www.elec.canterbury.ac.nz/c4x -- c4x support for gcc has 
existed for quite some time now.)

We have chosen COFF as the format on the Texas Instruments C3x/C4x 
processor series. One of the reasons is that the native TI tools is 
speaking COFF. But I would reccommend ELF on new targets.

I think it's great that someone (TM) is working on a MCS-51 port!! There 
are *many* occations where I wish I had a gcc/binutils MCS-51 compiler.

BTW, are you aware of the small device c compiler package: 
http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/ I'm uncertain if the binutils functionality 
(like as, ld, etc) is included in the sdcc package, or if they rely on 
3rd party tools.  But IMHO I would prefer that sdcc would merge with 
gcc/binutils somehow. I'd rather have and use binutils/gcc over sdcc, 
because of the same reasons that I prefer avr-gcc instead of commercial 
c-compilers (I wont list the reasons here).


Svein