Re: C54x port: some general technical questions

2005-05-05 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 sized

Re: C54x port: some general technical questions

2005-05-04 Thread Paul Koning
James == James E Wilson James 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 has

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

Re: C54x port: some general technical questions

2005-05-04 Thread Paul Koning
James == James E Wilson James 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 about 2

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.

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

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 become