Re: Information about GCC detailed design?

Randy Crawford wrote:


> If you want a simpler/smaller open-source compiler that may be more
> conducive to compiler education, you might want to look at lcc:
> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/software/lcc/. It's available for Unix as
> well as Win 95/98. There's even a book on the compiler, and a
> newsgroup: comp.compilers.lcc.


This is true. lcc is a good compiler for studying. I have read the
book about lcc and I can recommend it. But be warned: The book
describes version 3 of lcc and not the current version 4, which has a
different API between the parts of the compiler.


> If you insist on GCC/EGCS, look to http://gcc.gnu.org or for docs,
> especially http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/.


There is an online document which describes the problems people
face when porting the gcc:


    Harry Gunnarsson and Thomas Lundqvist:
    Porting the GNU C Compiler to the Thor Microprocessor
    The thesis work was done at Saab Ericsson Space AB, Göteborg, 1995.


    http://www.ce.chalmers.se/~thomasl/oldpub/masterthesis.html
    http://www.ce.chalmers.se/~thomasl/oldpub/ThorGCC.ps.gz


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