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Re: So what is XMOS good for?
« on: February 22, 2010, 05:35:44 PM »
Quote from: koaftder;544369
I'm thinking of porting the compiler over to AROS, just to be a dick, just so AROS users can brag that they got to play with the cheap XMOS dev kits first without paying 2,000 for the privilege of having the uber l33t new hyperion OS/mobo combo and still have to compile their junk on a mac or pc.

https://www.xmos.com/technology/design-tools-source

It's an LLVM-based toolchain!  I hope you do port it because I want to make Mattathias BASIC use that same toolchain!  The trickiest part should be that their IDE is Eclipse and requires Java.  Other than that, it's just a matter of making the calling conventions for AROS libraries using TableGen and setting the alignment for AROS' structure alignment policies.  There's already an x86 and PowerPC backend for LLVM but x86 seems to get more attention.