Porting G++, etc.

[Hugh C. Lauer]

Hello,

 

I am trying to scope out the size of a project to port G++ to a proprietary VLIW processor.  The processor has some interesting pipelined vector operations, which we can optimize.  However, we need to get a target cross-compiler off the ground first.  Compilation host would be Windows or Linux, target is the processor in question.

 

So, my questions are

 

• How big a job (starting from scratch with the open source and tools) is it to get a compiler and necessary libraries up and running to compile to my target?  I.e., how many person-years of work?  What kind of skill set do I need to accumulate for the team?  (I know that this question does not have a simple answer, but I am trying to get a feel for how much to bite off.)

 

• Are there commercial organizations out there who can do this for a fee?  I am looking for someone with a good record of porting to strange architectures.

 

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Thanks,

 

Hugh C. Lauer

VP of Processor Engineering

Real Time  Visualization Group

TeraRecon, Inc.

Concord, MA