From: "Tarjei Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com>
Subject: Re: Compiler for Z80/6510
Date: 1999/11/26
Date: 1999-11-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <81lhs4$j581@ftp.kvaerner.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 383DC86C.19A6F176@australia.boeing.com
Peter Milliken wrote
>I am curious, on the one hand we have this paper (advertised in the Ada
>Home page) and on the other hand, experienced compiler writers such as
>yourself. These statements seem to contradict each other. I do not have
>any experience in compiler writing but I have been prepared to accept
>the paper at it's face value (having no way to confirm or deny :-)). Did
>Lawlis and Elam get it wrong? Were they correct for their particular
>circumstances and environment? I have shown the paper to non Ada
>software engineers and received various responses, the worst being open
>ridicule and statements that the paper must be a pure fabrication.
If my memory is right, they did this on a signal processor. Assembly language
programming on such a device is supposed to be very difficult. There are a lot
of problems with scheduling of instructions and rather arcane rules for what
can be done.
It is easy for a compiler to keep track of these rules, but hard for humans.
This of course does not apply to ordinary processors.
So keep this in mind when reading the paper.
Greetings,
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-24 0:00 Compiler for Z80/6510 Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Frank Klemm
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Wil
1999-11-25 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-25 0:00 ` Peter Milliken
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
1999-11-27 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-11-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <01bf38cb$be9b2b60$022a6282@dieppe>
1999-11-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-28 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-11-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-12-13 0:00 ` carr_tom
1999-12-17 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-12-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-21 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Tarjei Jensen [this message]
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-28 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Marin Condic
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Marin Condic
1999-11-29 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Tarjei Jensen
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Marin Condic
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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