Language/Compiler for 8/16 bit processor?

mago@legba.sunmexico.Sun.COM (Gerardo Horvilleur)
Wed, 19 Jan 1994 17:33:32 GMT

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From: mago@legba.sunmexico.Sun.COM (Gerardo Horvilleur)
Keywords: design, question, comment
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 17:33:32 GMT

Where can I find information on languages designed for simple 8 bits
processors? Simple 8 bits processors (like the 6502) have few registers
and a non-orthogonal instruction set. I remember seeing ads a few years
ago (10 years ago :) for languages that were designed so it would be easy
to generate efficient code for these kind of processors.


What I want to do is design a language that can be efficiently translated
to 65816 assembly language. The 65816 is a 16 bit version of the 6502.


Gerardo
mago@sunmexico.sun.com
[For 8-bit machines there have been specialized languages like PL/M. For
16-bit machines, I don't see what you need anything special -- Ritchie's C
compiler ran perfectly well in multiple passes in 12K on a 16-bit PDP-11.
I suppose the wierd stack could be a problem.
-John]
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