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From: "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: Adapting an Ada compiler to generate 8051 code (Again?! ;-)
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 22:28:06 +0100
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On 30/03/2021 20:16, Paul Rubin wrote:

> Besides the approaches other people have mentioned, I don't know if
> there are any really large obstacles to targeting GCC to the 8051, or to

The biggest obstacles will be the severe lack of registers. But it's 
possible, lm78 for example.