Re: Fixed point support for GCC cross compiler

shafi wrote:
> Someone told me that one can add support in two ways.
> 1. Include the support through the compiler (change the internals).
> 2. Outside the compiler, through a library. (library support)


If you do it with a library people will have a heard time using it.
Instead of using the "+" to add two numbers they might have to call a
function.


And how would you store the numbers using something that gcc can
understand? I guess you'd have to do it using strings?


#1 is your only option if you need to support a lot of developers and
you want it to be easy for them.


I find it difficult to work with the gcc source code. I like SDCC
better, but they don't have an Arm code generator yet. You can also
look at lcc. Or maybe some version of Small C if you don't need a full
C compiler.


Gcc is the most popular open source compiler for Arm, but it's not an
easy bit of code to work on :-(


Eric

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