[Coco] Re: CoCo needs?

[Boisy G. Pitre]

On Mar 8, 2005, at 5:25 PM, James Dessart wrote:

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> On 8-Mar-05, at 4:48 PM, Boisy G. Pitre wrote:
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>> As time allows, I am starting to adapt the sdcc (sdcc.sf.net) 
>> compiler to the 6809.  There is some work to do, but starting from 
>> the existing hc08 code, it isn't that much of a leap.  I'm waiting to 
>> hear back from one of the guys on the project about starting an "m09" 
>> support branch on the project.  If I can get approval, then I'll 
>> check in what I have and development can start.
>>
>> This may or may not be the best tool chain to adapt to, but it's a 
>> start.  Frankly, I'm skeptical as to who will take up the slack here. 
>>  We'll see.
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> What needs to be done? If it's just a matter of putting some already 
> written "hard" stuff together, then I might be up for that. I just 
> don't have time to write an entire backend.

There are similarities between the HC08 and 6809, but the back-end 
would have to be changed.  Out of all of the supported processors, the 
HC08 is the closest to the 6809, so it's the logical choice for 
starting from.

> If it's a question of source control resources, I definitely have the 
> bandwidth to set up either a Subversion or CVS repository, and work 
> could go on in there. My upload bandwidth is entirely uncapped (no 
> limit), but I'm stuck at 70 KB/sec, approximately. Those kinds of 
> resources are easy to set up, so I'd be happy to do it.

No need.  The project is already hosted on sourceforge.

> Once we have that, there are a few good uses I'm sure I can put it to.

I'll post more when I hear from the project guy.