[PicForth] Re: food for thought - picforth as compiler back-end

Samuel Tardieu sam at rfc1149.net
Wed Dec 29 12:05:44 CET 2004


>>>>> "David" == David McNab <david at rebirthing.co.nz> writes:

David> PicForth could be used as a back-end for compilers of other
David> high-level languages such as Python, C, Ruby etc.

The lack of indexed addressing in PIC 16Fxxx makes it hard to build
efficient stack frames. The newer 18Fxxx have a much better
instruction set in extended mode.

  Sam
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