[avr-gcc-list] Re: avr superoptimizer

[David Brown]

Weddington, Eric wrote:
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> > On Behalf Of David Brown Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 2:17 PM To:
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> > superoptimizer
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> > Perhaps we could petition Atmel to sponsor a couple of students to
> > make a starting point over as a summer project?
>
> I don't think we're quite at a point to do that yet. But I'm not
> ruling it out completely.

I really don't know the status of LLVM and how well it would work for a 
small device like the AVR - but it would be *very* interesting to find 
out!  There are a lot of small microcontrollers with limited or no open 
source compilers, most of which are poorly suited to gcc ports.  Maybe 
they are equally unsuitable for LLVM ports - but maybe not.  The only 
way to know for sure is for someone to work on such a port and see how 
it goes.  That sounds like a great student project to me!