Re: [avr-gcc-list] Using hardware multiplier on ATmega128L

[David Gay]

John Rehwinkel wrote:
> > > In particular I have this kind of instruction on my NeSC program 
> > > (NeSC is a "dialect" of C language ...):
>
>
> > Good and bad news. The code you've written is already using the 
> > hardware multiply... (avr-gcc's 32-bit multiply routine for atmega128 
> > uses the hardware multiply).
>
>
> Actually, I doubt it.  AFAIK, gcc doesn't support NeSC, so he's probably 
> using a different
> compiler.  

I should've included more background: nesC compiles to C code which is then 
passed to avr-gcc (and I should know, given that I wrote the nesC compiler ;-)).

David Gay