Hi! > > regarding the ASM code is very strange if you compare it to > > the code of 80x86, PPC or ARM. > > As far as I have seen the BlackFin has two cores: an arm like risc core > and a dsp.
The BlackFin and other Analog Devices DSPs have an uncommon assembler syntax. Contrary to well-known mnemonic style like add eax,ecx they use an algebraic syntax like r2 = r1 + r3, r4 = dm(i0,m1); /* addition and memory access */ r3 = r2 * r4, r1 = r2 + r4; /* multiplication and addition */ Regarding the implementation for a compiler this is no principal problem, because the compiler has an internal representation of what it wants to do, and this can be equally expressed in (=transformed to) mnemonic and algebraic syntax. A totally different topic is the inherent parallel processing of a DSP. Usually they can utilize several processing units (+, *) and memories within a single cycle (e.g. see above). Instruction ordering and interleaving to utilize parallelism is tedious to do by hand and I think also challenging for a compiler. Bye Hansi _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel