Eric Smith <eric@BROUHAHA.COM> writes:

> I won't say that it's impossible to retarget GCC to the PIC, but if anyone
> succeeds in doing so, such that GCC can be productively used on a common
> PIC (e.g., PIC16F84), I'll gladly pay them $100 for it.

if the asked $100, I'd be the first to stick RMS on them for license
violations, although I don't think that GCC is suited to a machine w/ under 1K
of RAM.  You might do it, but it would be a helluva stretch.

> > or just use yacc and whip one up.
>
> Just like that, huh?  Yacc's quite a useful tool, but even with Yacc a C
> compiler isn't just a quick hack.

        You'd be surprised what you can do with yacc/bison.  That is probably
the most sensible approach to a C compiler under linux that I have heard yet.