RE: [LinuxBIOS] Feature request - romcc

[Hamish Guthrie]

Steve:

I concur 100% with your comments, and must congratulate Eric on this
remarkable piece of work. All I am looking for is a few pointers as to
limitations, register usage etc., which I can then probably document for a
small HOWTO on ROMCC so that other newbies to ROMCC do not fall into the
holes I have apparently dug for myself!!! I am also now writing a few bits
of test code to try to figure out how registers are allocated and consumed
for variables/function calls, and thus maybe glean a bit more insight into
the issue.

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Gehlbach [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Sonntag, 10. April 2005 22:33
To: Hamish Guthrie
Cc: Linuxbios
Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Feature request - romcc
> I have had a brief look at romcc.c, and it is a HUGE piece of code, and I

do
> not think that it is of merit for me to look at that code while actually
> trying to get something else working!

Hamish:

IMHO, romcc is a very remarkable piece of work by Eric Biederman. I
argued against it at the time as being too ambitious, but of course,
Eric proved it could be done.  It really should be put up on its own web
site as a separate project.  There are probably other projects that
could benefit from a C code compiler that operates purely in registers
without RAM enabled.

Steve G.