Important software update today. I have updated my compiler toolchain to support relocatable objects. Even though today’s version does not bring many improvements in code generation, I consider it very important and getting me much closer to my goal of running “real software” on BYTEC/16. Until now, I only had a retargeted LCC compiler, which ...
Some time ago I ran a stress test of my compiler toolchain by compiling portions of Minix C library (compilation only, with no intention of running the code). This was to see if I encounter any problems. Overall I am happy with the results. I fixed several LCC machine description bugs, and I am now ...
Few months ago I made what I believe was the last hardware fix in the current build. I realized only yesterday that I have not posted the revised schematics, so today’s post is to make up for it. The fix itself is a simple but important update to the clock generation circuit. In my post from ...
Last time I mentioned that LCC port required updates to the instruction set. Indeed, I decided to give up some instructions in favour of those which seemed to make more sense in view of code generation. I did a major ISA cleanup: I have removed register indirect with register offset addressing modes like in LD ...
It’s been over six months since I last posted but I haven’t dropped out of the project completely. I have been slowly and quietly working on an initial revision of LCC port in short weekend sessions (not more than 2 hours each week). The reason for losing momentum a bit is my daughter Viktoria’s birth ...
