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David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> schrieb:

> The GCC community would be quite happy to support such targets, but 
> someone would need to make the port.  And the architecture of the gcc 
> compiler suite is best suited to processors with reasonably regular and 
> orthogonal ISAs with plenty of registers and at least 16-bit width - 
> getting good results for a cpu like the 6502 from gcc would be an 
> extraordinary level of effort.  It makes a lot more sense to look at 
> tools like SDCC with an architecture that fits better.

Native compilation of gcc on a 6502 would be... interesting.

But I think an adaption of gcc to a 6502 could actually work if
the zero page was treated as 128 16-bit registers.  Not going
there, though :-)