[ECOS] newbie with a board

[Jonathan Larmour]

John Clark wrote:
> 
> Am Mittwoch, 23.04.03, um 03:21 Uhr (US/Pacific) schrieb Bob Koninckx:
> 
>> reason being that you 'd have to start porting the GNU compiler to it
>> first. And that's still considered to be _hard_ for anything else but 32
>> or 64 bit architectures.
>>
> 
> So, I can't get eCos up for my PDP-11's... then there's the Z80,

:-) We don't have any religious objection to supporting non-GCC ports, but 
obviously at this point it's pretty difficult and with requirements like 
C++ constructor priority ordering, or even just requiring arbitary 
sections which not many other executable formats than ELF can do, there 
are going to be difficulties.

Jifl
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