Bootstrappable language

Thu Dec 11 09:05:00 CST 2008

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:02:58 -0700, bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca wrote
> The architecture is the classic PDP 8 style design but with full alu
> [....]
> The two compilers I have seen require some register to register moves,

Modern compilers generally like to have a register file. For an accumulator
architecture like the PDP8 or 6502 the straightforward approach is to treat page
zero as general-purpose registers.

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Kevin Schoedel <schoedel at kw.igs.net> VA3TCS