Non-Standard Compilier Tools

[Dave New]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Richard Collins - reDSP [SMTP:redsp@writeme.com]
> Sent:	Monday, May 04, 1998 12:40 PM
> To:	crossgcc@cygnus.com
> Subject:	Non-Standard Compilier Tools
> 
> Does anyone know if there is a movement to develope under the GCC
> methodology, any compilers for non-standard or non-software uses? For
> example, is anyone working on hardware design tools such as VHDL or
> schematic capture? 
> 
> It seems odd to me that the software community would be able to
> produce
> such a nice set of tools and the hardware community would be locked
> into a
> handfull of expensive vendors. 
> 
	[Dave New]  Maybe it's because the hardware community (chip
vendors)
	keep their programming algorithms proprietary.  At least the CPU
vendors
	publish (most of 8-) their instruction set.  Imagine how
difficult it would be
	to develop GNU-like tools for CPUs with 'secret' instruction
sets... 


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